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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC77DCQ19

1977-02-19 NEWTON, Kansas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9938L Grumman AA-1B 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

GRUMMAN AA-1B · N9938L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

CITY-COUNTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

320° / 25 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000AA1B-0238

Total time

1,330 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

154

Age

27

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LANDING

Investigator remarks

PILOT FAILED TO CORRECT FOR UNFAVORABLE WIND ON

Cause factors

64/C/28 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause
64/C/31 C
PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT Cause
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS

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 0258. Source file NTSB_1977_3_0258.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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