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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW75DRA13

1974-11-07 PORT ARTHUR, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9880L

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

GRUMMAN AMERICAN AA-1B

Year of manufacture

1974 · 0 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-235 SERIES (115 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19741026

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ADCB3F

Registrant of record

TRINITY PROPERTY MANAGEMENT LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9880L AMER AVCO AA-1B 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

AMER AVCO AA-1B · N9880L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Aircraft history

Serial number

000AA1B-0480

Total time

30 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,807

Age

28

Investigator remarks

ACFT TOUCHED DOWN IN TALL MARSH GRASS

Cause factors

64/C/20 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC. Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
83/K/D K
TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION 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 3677. Source file NTSB_1974_3_3677.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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