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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI76FEE26

1975-10-04 NAPERVILLE, Illinois, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N61791 GRUM AMER AA1 Serious

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 AA1 · N61791

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

Business

Airport

CLOW

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

160° / 5 kt

Temp

49° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000AA-1-0379

Total time

903 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

564

Age

29

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TH IN ATMPT REGAIN PWR.ENG RESTARTED ACFT NOSEDOWN

Investigator remarks

WHEN ENG QUIT PLT SWITCHED FUEL SEL BACK AND FOR

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
88/B/07 B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER EMERGENCY PROCEDURES
64/B/23 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS

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 2884. Source file NTSB_1975_3_2884.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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