- Date
- December 18, 1975
- Place
- Bettles, AK · BETTLES, AK
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Uncontrolled descent
- Aircraft
- N5137TBellanca 7GCBC
- Status
- Completed · report December 30, 1976
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19751218041889A
- Case key
- 152024
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-4178 75/12/18 NR.BETTLES,AK BELLANCA 7GCBC CR- 1 0 0 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 49, 10000 TIME - UNK/NR N5137T PX- 0 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, UNK/NR IN DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 TYPE, NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED UMIAT,AK AREA TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: UNCONTROLLED IN FLIGHT: UNCONTROLLED DESCENT PROBABLE CAUSE(S) MISCELLANEOUS - UNDETERMINED REMARKS- ACFT BECAME INVERTED IN FLT FOR UNDET REASON.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5137T
- Reported as
- Bellanca 7GCBC
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
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FAA reports on this event · 1
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