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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD76FGN39

1976-07-13 NEW CUMBERLAND, West Virginia, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1609R

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

GRUMMAN AMERICAN AA-1B

Year of manufacture

1976 · 0 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-235 SERIES (115 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19760223

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0F551

Registrant of record

JOHNSON HENRY D

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1609R 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 · N1609R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

D

Airport

HERRON

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000AA1B-0609

Total time

160 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

5,701

Age

39

Cause factors

88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
74/C/CA C
POWERPLANT TANKS Cause
68/C/J2 C
PERSONNEL POOR/INADEQUATE DESIGN Cause

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 2503. Source file NTSB_1976_3_2503.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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