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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA76DLA42

1976-04-18 PENSACOLA, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5669L

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AMERICAN AA-1

Year of manufacture

1969 · 7 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-235 SERIES (115 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19690319

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A740D2

Registrant of record

GALLIEN JUSTIN A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5669L AMER AVCO AA1 None

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 · N5669L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

COASTAL

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000AA-0069

Total time

1,128 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,168

Age

37

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

R BRAKE CYL.BRAKE INOP.

Investigator remarks

FERRY FLT FOR ANNUAL INSP.INSUFFICIENT FLUID IN

Cause factors

68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
70/C/CJ C
AIRFRAME BRAKING SYSTEM (NORMAL SYSTEM) Cause
88/C/AK C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LOW FLUID LEVEL Cause
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 2135. Source file NTSB_1976_3_2135.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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