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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK78IA056

1978-06-15 HONOLULU, Hawaii, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N401AD

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BELLANCA 8KCAB

Engine

LYCOMING IO-320 SERIES (150 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19740701

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4B05C

Registrant of record

ALEXANDER BRAD K

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N401AD Douglas DC-4 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

DOUGLAS DC-4 · N401AD

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Airport

HONOLULU INTL

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

080° / 15 kt

Temp

78° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Total time

68,760 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

27,000

Age

54

Cause factors

74/C/FA C
POWERPLANT BLADES Cause
88/C/36 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE 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 4 0013. Source file NTSB_1978_4_0013.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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