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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC69F0286

1968-11-21 BAYPORT, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5612L

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AMERICAN AA-1

Year of manufacture

1968 · 0 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-235 SERIES (115 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19681017

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A72D4A

Registrant of record

HOLDEN JASON K

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5612L AMER AVCO AA-1 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 AA-1 · N5612L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

EDWARDS

Kind of flying

DC

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

280° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

22 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

800

Age

26

Investigator remarks

NOSE GR STRUT FAILED ABOVE FORK ATTACH POINT.

Cause factors

70/A/CE A
AIRFRAME NOSEWHEEL ASSEMBLIES Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/36 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE 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 4345. Source file NTSB_1968_3_4345.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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