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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC76FHA28

1976-04-29 SUSSEX, New Jersey, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N36435 Bellanca 8KCAB 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 8KCAB · N36435

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D7

Operator type

D

Airport

SUSSEX

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000110-73

Total time

580 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

12,600

Age

53

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ONTROL.

Investigator remarks

FAILED ELEVATOR DOWN STOP PREVENTED MOVMENT OF C

Cause factors

75/A/CC A
SYSTEMS ELEVATOR AND ELEVATOR TAB CONTROL SYSTEM Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/98 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER CLEARANCE-TOLERANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 1654. Source file NTSB_1976_3_1654.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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