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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX76FWA19

1976-01-06 HUNTINGTON BCH, California, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6441L AMER AVCO AA1-A 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 AA1-A · N6441L

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

D

Airport

MEADOWLARK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

00AA-1A-0441

Pilot

Certificate

IA (IA)

Total hours

1,500

Age

61

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RN.

Investigator remarks

GO ARND DUE HARD LNDG. ENG QUIT DRG NOSE HI R TU

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
64/B/23 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS
64/B/16 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED
88/L/22 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS POORLY PLANNED APPROACH
84/L/8 L
MISCELLANEOUS UNQUALIFIED PERSON OPERATED AIRCRAFT

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 0152. Source file NTSB_1976_3_0152.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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