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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX76FUJ99

1976-08-11 SEDONA, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N74405 Bellanca 14-132 None

Historical record (pre-1982)

NTSB recorded this accident in the pre-1982 coded-field schema — structured fields rather than free-text narrative. Decoded codes use established NTSB single-letter taxonomies; cause factors remain verbatim pending the Form 6120.4 codebook lookup.

Aircraft

BELLANCA 14-132 · N74405

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

SEDONA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

270° / 10 kt

Temp

100° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001518

Total time

1,958 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

448

Age

39

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LNDD ON HWY, HIT REFLECTOR MARKERS.

Investigator remarks

ENG LOST PWR & FUEL PRESSURE. WOBBLE PUMP MALF.

Cause factors

74/C/CH C
POWERPLANT PUMPS Cause
88/C/AJ C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LEAK/LEAKAGE Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
64/B/15 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 2188. Source file NTSB_1976_3_2188.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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