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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK77FVG43

1977-06-26 CHICO, California, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N74601 Grumman AA-5B Serious

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

GRUMMAN AA-5B · N74601

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

RANCHERO

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000AA5B-0269

Total time

398 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,481

Age

23

Cause factors

66/C/79 C
DUAL STUDENT Cause
64/C/30 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT Cause
64/C/81 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO ABORT TAKEOFF Cause

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 1347. Source file NTSB_1977_3_1347.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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