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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC79FCA16

1979-06-06 OWENSVILLE, Missouri, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N28467 Grumman AA-5B Serious

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-5B · N28467

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

190° / 11 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000AA5B-0630

Total time

560 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

430

Age

23

Investigator remarks

OFF AIRPORT OPERATION.

Cause factors

64/A/35 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
83/J/D J
TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION Joint 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 1611. Source file NTSB_1979_3_1611.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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