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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC78FNE20

1978-04-29 SIMSBURY, Connecticut, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9178L

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BELLANCA 8KCAB

Year of manufacture

1972 · 6 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING IO-320 SERIES (150 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19720216

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ACB427

Registrant of record

CLARKE PAUL W

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9178L Bellanca 8KCAB Minor

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 · N9178L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

SIMSBURY

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000005-72

Total time

843 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

427

Age

20

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED 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 0943. Source file NTSB_1978_3_0943.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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