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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD79FID23

1979-07-29 BOWLING GREEN, Virginia, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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 AA1B · N96451

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

FORT AP HILL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

270° / 8 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000145

Total time

687 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

970

Age

29

Cause factors

  • 64/C/30 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT Cause
  • 65/C/46 C
    COPILOT Cause
  • 82/L/A L
    WEATHER LOW CEILING
  • 82/L/C L
    WEATHER FOG
  • 88/K/DH K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RAN OFF END OF RUNWAY 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 3451. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3451.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.