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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA79FA099

1979-07-04 OZARK, Alabama, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7644E Bellanca 14-193 Fatal

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 14-193 · N7644E

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

BRESHEARS STRIP

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

280° / 4 kt

Temp

101° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000004146

Total time

1,813 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

16,727

Age

56

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/B/07 B
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND
64/L/80 L
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND
82/L/U L
WEATHER HIGH TEMPERATURE
88/L/AQ L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND

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 2537. Source file NTSB_1979_3_2537.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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