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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK79FVM04

1978-11-22 HOLLISTER, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N86872

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BELLANCA 7ECA

Year of manufacture

1974 · 4 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-235 SERIES (115 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19740425

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ABEFF7

Registrant of record

CHUPITO SABROCITO LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N86872 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 · N86872

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

HOLLISTER MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

315° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Total time

565 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

811

Age

36

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

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 3742. Source file NTSB_1978_3_3742.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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