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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC73FHM03

1972-07-21 WARWICK, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9224L

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AMERICAN AVIATION AA-1A

Year of manufacture

1971 · 1 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-235 SERIES (115 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19710618

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ACC887

Registrant of record

ANALYTICAL TECHNOLOGIES INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9224L AMER AVCO AA-1A 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-1A · N9224L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

WARWICK

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

350° / 8 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000AA1A-0124

Total time

611 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

42

Age

22

Investigator remarks

PORPOISED AND LOST CTL.

Cause factors

64/C/22 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
80/K/BF K
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SOFT SHOULDERS 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 2459. Source file NTSB_1972_3_2459.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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