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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA78FA085

1978-05-13 CLEARWATER, Florida, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6326L AMER AVCO AA-1B 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 AA-1B · N6326L

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Airport

ST PETERSBURG

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 14 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

00AA-1B-0026

Total time

2,623 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

84

Age

17

Investigator remarks

RAN L TANK DRY.R TANK FULL.ATMTD RETURN.

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/19 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INATTENTIVE TO FUEL SUPPLY Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
64/B/16 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED
88/B/07 B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER EMERGENCY PROCEDURES
88/L/91 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS TOUCH AND GO LANDING

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 1188. Source file NTSB_1978_3_1188.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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