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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA78FA034

1978-01-20 ORMOND BEACH, Florida, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6331L AMER AVCO AA1-A 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

AMER AVCO AA1-A · N6331L

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

D

Airport

ORMOND BEACH

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

250° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000AA1A-0331

Total time

1,124 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

12

Age

21

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ED LESS THAN 1/2PT FUEL. APPROX 7GAL IN RT TANK.

Investigator remarks

WND GUSTING 22K.FUEL SEL ON L TANK WHICH CONTAIN

Cause factors

68/C/C0 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT Cause
68/C/C1 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE TRAINING OF STUDENT Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
64/C/16 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED 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 0188. Source file NTSB_1978_3_0188.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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