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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA76FYC28

1976-02-03 GOLDENDALE, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6385L AMER AVCO AA1-A 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 AA1-A · N6385L

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

GOLDENDALE,WA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Temp

45° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000AA-1A0385

Total time

994 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,257

Age

29

Investigator remarks

NO ENG MALF FOUND. HIT ROCKS.

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
64/B/16 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED

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 0516. Source file NTSB_1976_3_0516.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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