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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI76FEI15

1975-11-16 WADSWORTH, Ohio, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7151L GRUM AMER AA-5 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-5 · N7151L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

WADSWORTH

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

210° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000451

Total time

1,231 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

57

Age

40

Investigator remarks

STRUCK DITCH ADJ TO RWY.

Cause factors

64/C/25 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL 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 4001. Source file NTSB_1975_3_4001.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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