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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK76FJA03

1975-10-29 HILO, Hawaii, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N57466 Bellanca 7GCAA 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 7GCAA · N57466

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D2

Operator type

D

Airport

HILO

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Temp

77° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000265-73

Total time

935 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

287

Age

34

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

HIT 6FT SHORT LDG ON ROAD IN CANE FLD.

Investigator remarks

THROTTLE CABLE HOUSING SEPARATED FROM ATTACH PT.

Cause factors

74/C/I0 C
POWERPLANT THROTTLE-POWER LEVER ASSEMBLIES Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
88/C/AV C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LOOSE,PART/FITTING Cause
64/B/48 B
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 3385. Source file NTSB_1975_3_3385.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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