Atlas / NTSB / DEN78DQA07

NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN78DQA07

1977-12-03 ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9605U

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

GRUMMAN AMERICAN AA-1C

Year of manufacture

1977 · 0 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-235 SERIES (115 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19770804

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AD5F40

Registrant of record

COOK JACOB D

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9605U GRUM AMER AA1C 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

GRUM AMER AA1C · N9605U

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000AA1C-0070

Total time

162 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

364

Age

24

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LNDG AT ALT TOO LOW TO RECOVER.

Investigator remarks

INSTRUCTOR ELECTED TO TERMINATE SIMULATED FORCED

Cause factors

66/A/17 A
DUAL STUDENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/30 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/85 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SIMULATED CONDITIONS Joint 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 4225. Source file NTSB_1977_3_4225.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.