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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC77FHA01

1976-10-16 CENTER SQUARE, Pennsylvania, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7AK

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

VAN'S AIRCRAFT RV-6

Year of manufacture

1991

Engine

LYCOMING AEIO-320 SER (150 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19910917

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A94FE6

Registrant of record

SCOTT BRIAN

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7AK Bellanca 7GCBC Serious

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 7GCBC · N7AK

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000372-72

Total time

78 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

126

Age

29

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ELD,SELECTED A SECOND,UNABLE TO REACH,STRUCK TREES

Investigator remarks

ENGINE STOPPED PILOT SAID HE GLIDED OVER OPEN FI

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
64/C/27 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT DECISIONS OR PLANNING Cause
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 3482. Source file NTSB_1976_3_3482.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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