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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC74DCJ42

1974-05-26 AUBURN, Nebraska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9311L AMER AVCO AA1-A 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-A · N9311L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

STANLEY FARM

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

350° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

00AA-1A-0011

Total time

1,224 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

64

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

E OF RWY,VEERED OFF RWY STRUCK FENCE ADJ TO RWY.

Investigator remarks

TIRES SLID ON GRASS.L WING STRUCK GRASS ON L SID

Cause factors

64/C/28 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause
64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
80/L/BA L
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES WET RUNWAY
80/K/BI K
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES HIGH VEGETATION 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 1356. Source file NTSB_1974_3_1356.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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