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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA77FA060

1977-06-02 ATLANTA, Georgia, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9373L GRUM AMER AA-1A Fatal

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 AA-1A · N9373L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

E

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

320° / 5 kt

Temp

68° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000AA1A-0073

Total time

934 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,000

Age

39

Investigator remarks

EXHAUSTED L TANK FUEL.PLT BLOOD-ALC LVL 233MG%.

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
64/C/65 C
PILOT IN COMMAND PHYSICAL IMPAIRMENT Cause
88/C/67 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ALCOHOLIC IMPAIRMENT OF EFFICIENCY AND JUDGMENT 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 1616. Source file NTSB_1977_3_1616.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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