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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK76DVG88

1976-06-28 GRASS VALLEY, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9846B

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BELLANCA 14-19-2

Year of manufacture

1958 · 18 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19581010

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ADBD2C

Registrant of record

FISCHER BRUCE M

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9846B Bellanca 14-19 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 14-19 · N9846B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

GRASS VALLEY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000004098

Total time

1,482 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

899

Age

46

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

& LOST CTL. NO GR MALFUNCTION FOUND.

Investigator remarks

PLT THOUGHT R GR WAS RETRACTING. ATTMPTD GO ARND

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
64/C/44 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SPONTANEOUS-IMPROPER ACTION 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 1847. Source file NTSB_1976_3_1847.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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