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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW76DRD50

1976-05-24 VENICE, Louisiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N102AM

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AVIAT AIRCRAFT INC A-1B

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A00C2E

Registrant of record

ANTCZAK AIR LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N102AM Cessna A185F 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

CESSNA A185F · N102AM

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

315° / 10 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018022410

Total time

684 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,132

Age

41

Investigator remarks

FLOAT EQUIPPED. RAN INTO TALL REEDS IN CANAL.

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL 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 1344. Source file NTSB_1976_3_1344.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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