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Event IAD74FIG23

1974-04-21 STEVENSVILLE, Maryland, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1012G

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AMERICAN AA-1

Year of manufacture

1969 · 5 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-235 SERIES (115 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19690603

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A00B10

Registrant of record

FORWALT LUCAS A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1012G AMER AVCO AA1 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 AA1 · N1012G

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

BAY BRIDGE

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

190° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000122

Total time

1,427 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

81

Age

33

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NSTRATED X-WIND COMPONENT OF ACFT.

Investigator remarks

PLT RPTD WIND 15K,GUSTS TO 20K.EXCEEDED MAX DEMO

Cause factors

64/C/35 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause
64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS
80/K/BY K
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER 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 0862. Source file NTSB_1974_3_0862.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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