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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW78DRG20

1977-12-18 WEST REALITOS, Texas, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1605R

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

GRUMMAN AMERICAN AA-1B

Year of manufacture

1976 · 1 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-235 SERIES (115 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19760219

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0F4C5

Registrant of record

GEIGER EMORY H JR

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1605R GRUM-AMER AA-1B 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-1B · N1605R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

260° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000AA1B-0605

Total time

1,062 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

54

Age

21

Cause factors

64/A/03 A
PILOT IN COMMAND BECAME LOST/DISORIENTED Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/35 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
83/J/F J
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint cause
88/1/AW 1
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 1

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 3869. Source file NTSB_1977_3_3869.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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