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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN80FQA05

1979-10-13 ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9529U GRUM AMER AA-1C 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-1C · N9529U

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

CORANADO

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000AA1C0025

Total time

871 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

2,000

Age

34

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OIL FOULED.AC 72HRS FROM LAST 100HR INSPECTION.

Investigator remarks

4 SPARK PLUGS FOUND LEAD FOULED AND 1 PLUG FOUND

Cause factors

74/C/BC C
POWERPLANT SPARK PLUG Cause
64/B/25 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF

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 3003. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3003.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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