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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD76FID15

1975-11-01 ASHLAND, Virginia, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9458L AMER AVCO AA-1A 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

AMER AVCO AA-1A · N9458L

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — level (EA)

Operator type

D

Airport

HANOVER COUNTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

00AA-1A-0258

Total time

1,472 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

230

Age

38

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OFF,FUEL SEL R TANK WHEN ENG QUIT.UN RESTART ENG.

Investigator remarks

ABT 5 GAL FUEL L TANK.ACFT IN L TURN,BOOST PUMP

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
83/B/I B
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS

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 3151. Source file NTSB_1975_3_3151.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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