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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI79DEE57

1979-05-19 HARVARD, Illinois, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5484L

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

GRUMMAN AMERICAN AA-5

Year of manufacture

1973 · 6 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19730705

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A6F893

Registrant of record

AUGUSTINE ROBERT J

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5484L Grumman AA5 None

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

GRUMMAN AA5 · N5484L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Airport

HARVARD DACY

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

320° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000AA5-0384

Total time

2,547 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,992

Age

45

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/C/82 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND Cause
64/C/80 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND Cause
88/L/AQ L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND
80/K/BA K
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES WET RUNWAY 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 2389. Source file NTSB_1979_3_2389.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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