NTSB CAROL · Event
Event MIA66A0047
Registry · N74858
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
GRUMMAN AMERICAN AA-5B
Year of manufacture
1976
Engine
LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)
Seats / Engines
4 seats · 1 engine
Last airworthiness date
19761115
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S AA136A
Registrant of record
HAFFNER SEAN GEOFFREY
Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).
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
CONVAIR 240D · N74858
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
EE
Operator type
Business
Airport
MUNICIPAL
Kind of flying
B3
Weather at impact
Sky
CLEAR
Wind
050° / 13 kt
Temp
64° F
Aircraft history
Total time
12,446 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
GA (GA)
Total hours
12,000
Age
53
Investigator remarks
EXPOSED RUNWAY LIP.
Cause factors
- 65/A/48 A COPILOT Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 64/A/30 A PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 80/J/BY J AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER Joint 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
2 0835.
Source file
NTSB_1965_2_0835.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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