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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK77DVD36

1977-06-02 SONOMA, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1014E

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BELLANCA 7ECA

Year of manufacture

1977 · 0 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-235 SERIES (115 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19770311

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A00B54

Registrant of record

REGISTRATION PENDING

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1014E Bellanca 7ECA 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 7ECA · N1014E

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

SONOMA VALLEY

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

280° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000001203-77

Total time

112 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

18

Age

48

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause

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 1322. Source file NTSB_1977_3_1322.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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