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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC81FGT13

1981-09-21 MARIETTA, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8969L AMER AVCO 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

AMER AVCO AA-1B · N8969L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Airport

ELIZABETHTOWN

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 5 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00AA1-B-0419

Total time

1,290 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

75

Age

48

Investigator remarks

RAN OFF RGT SIDE OF RWY INTO TALL CORN.

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/B/79 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL
88/L/91 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS TOUCH AND GO LANDING
80/K/BI K
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES HIGH VEGETATION 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 2012. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2012.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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