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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI78FEE49

1978-07-04 HILLSDALE, Illinois, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9397L GRUM AMER AA1-A 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-A · N9397L

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

COLE RLA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

140° / 10 kt

Temp

81° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000AA1A-0097

Total time

3,243 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

750

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TY.FUEL SEL ON L TANK.

Investigator remarks

RT FUEL TANK HAD SEVERAL GALLONS FUEL,L TANK EMP

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
88/L/14 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS UNWARRANTED LOW FLYING
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint factor

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 3127. Source file NTSB_1978_3_3127.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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