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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ATL81DKG24

1981-06-09 COCHRAN, Georgia, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N26772 GRUM AMER AA-5A Minor

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

GRUM AMER AA-5A · N26772

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

Z

Airport

COCHRAN

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

270° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000AA5A-0707

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

51

Age

37

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 1186. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1186.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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