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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC77FGM36

1977-08-19 PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1481R

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

GRUMMAN AMERICAN AA-1B

Engine

LYCOMING 0-235 SERIES (115 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19751119

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0C2F3

Registrant of record

MCCORD HAL E JR

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1481R GRUM AMER AA1-B 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-B · N1481R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

003° / 180 kt

Temp

71° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000AA1B-0581

Total time

703 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,237

Age

26

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS 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 3189. Source file NTSB_1977_3_3189.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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