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Event IAD78FA108

1978-09-10 JACKSON, Tennessee, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1375R GRUM AMER AA-5 Fatal

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-5 · N1375R

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

MCKELLAR

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000AA50775

Total time

843 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

91

Age

27

Investigator remarks

FOLLOWING NAVY P-3 ON FINAL.

Cause factors

64/C/20 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC. Cause
84/C/1 C
MISCELLANEOUS VORTEX TURBULENCE 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 2891. Source file NTSB_1978_3_2891.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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