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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW81DRD19

1981-04-23 GRAND ISLE, Louisiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8985L GRUM AMER 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

GRUM AMER AA-1B · N8985L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

GRAND TERRE IS

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

180° / 12 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000AA1B-0435

Total time

4,666 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,521

Age

32

Cause factors

64/C/25 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 0667. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0667.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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