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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC80FCA27

1980-08-10 FARMINGTON, Missouri, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9897L GRUM-AMER 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

GRUM-AMER AA-1B · N9897L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

FARMINGTON RGNL

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 5 kt

Temp

85° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000AA18-0497

Total time

1,531 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

125

Age

40

Investigator remarks

HIT FENCE IN PASTURE.

Cause factors

64/C/27 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT DECISIONS OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION 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 2116. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2116.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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