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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA75FKQ24

1974-11-27 JACKSON, Mississippi, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9590L AMER AVCO AA-5 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-5 · N9590L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — level (EA)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

ALLEN C THOMPSON

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 4 kt

Temp

34° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000AA5-0590

Total time

326 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

98

Age

27

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

T FUEL SELECTOR ON EMPTY TANK AFTER ENG FAILURE.

Investigator remarks

LT TANK INDICATED LOW BUT CONTAINED FUEL.PLT KEP

Cause factors

64/C/20 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC. Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION 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 3633. Source file NTSB_1974_3_3633.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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