Atlas / NTSB / CHI80FEX28

NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI80FEX28

1980-07-25 INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N26774 Grumman AA-5A 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 AA-5A · N26774

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

METRO

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000AA5A-0709

Total time

484 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

3,055

Age

54

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

INOR DMG.BRAKE LINING WORN.

Investigator remarks

N97687,C182,& N61554,PA-28,SUB DMG,N4994E,C172,M

Cause factors

68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
70/C/CJ C
AIRFRAME BRAKING SYSTEM (NORMAL SYSTEM) Cause
88/C/BQ C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS EXCESSIVE-WEAR/PLAY Cause

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 1062. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1062.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Beyond the agency record

Search this event elsewhere.

Pre-filled searches into the sources where news + community discussion of aviation events lives. External sources are reported, not agency. Treat them as signal that something happened, not as fact about what happened.

TallyAero Live Wire Aviation press

Entity-clustered aviation events in the press — last 24 hr + 30-day archive.

NTSB CAROL Agency ↗

Official agency record + docket.

NTSB Docket Agency ↗

Investigative docket: factual reports, photos, transcripts.

Aviation Safety Network Aviation press ↗

Long-running aviation incident database (Flight Safety Foundation).

Kathryn's Report Aviation press ↗

Community NTSB synthesis blog — often has photos and witness reports.

Aviation Herald Aviation press ↗

Gold-standard aviation incident blog.