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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW70DRA14

1970-05-04 VICTORIA, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N11AA

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

JONKER SAILPLANES (PTY) LTD JS3

Year of manufacture

2019

Engine

M&D FLUGZE MD-TJ42

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20190427

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A029DB

Registrant of record

ADAMS ALAND B

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N11AA Grumman G-164 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 G-164 · N11AA

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise climb (DB)

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000685

Total time

165 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,238

Age

27

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

REVIOUS PASS.R LDG GR HIT LEVEE,SEPARATED.WND CALM

Investigator remarks

RICE FLD,FLT APRX 5FT AGL ENCTRD OWN TURB FROM P

Cause factors

84/C/1 C
MISCELLANEOUS VORTEX TURBULENCE 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 2017. Source file NTSB_1970_3_2017.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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