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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK77FVG30

1977-04-26 PLACERVILLE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2187W

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

FIREFLY BALLOONS INC FIREFLY 7-15

Year of manufacture

2004

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20050504

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1DA9C

Registrant of record

WHITFORD L CHANDLER

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2187W Beech B19 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

BEECH B19 · N2187W

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

PLACERVILLE

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000MB-698

Total time

1,750 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

60

Age

51

Cause factors

64/C/25 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
64/B/62 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING
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 0632. Source file NTSB_1977_3_0632.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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