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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA78DLG14

1978-03-26 ABBEVILLE, South Carolina, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5156K

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

RYAN NAVION B

Year of manufacture

1950 · 28 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING GO-435C&D SER (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19550411

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A67736

Registrant of record

HANOVER HOLDING CO

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5156K Navion B 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

NAVION B · N5156K

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

DAVIS FIELD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000AAV42056B

Total time

1,976 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

67

Age

34

Cause factors

64/C/25 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 0722. Source file NTSB_1978_3_0722.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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