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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA79FA069

1979-04-11 MARATHON, Florida, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7373L AMER AVCO AA-5 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-5 · N7373L

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D8

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

120° / 18 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000AA5-0273

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

13,000

Age

50

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

UND ON PLT.

Investigator remarks

PRESCRIPTION DRUGS-DESIPRAMINE & CHLORAZEPATE-FO

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 1171. Source file NTSB_1979_3_1171.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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