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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC76FGM38

1976-07-06 ERIE, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5972L GRUM AMER AA1 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 AA1 · N5972L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

ERIE INTL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

310° / 7 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000AA1-0272

Total time

710 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

144

Age

26

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RX 5 GAL FUEL IN R TANK.

Investigator remarks

LNDD IN CORN FLD AT SLT ANGLE TO ROWS OF CORN.AP

Cause factors

64/C/31 C
PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN

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 1675. Source file NTSB_1976_3_1675.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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