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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA77FYP12

1976-12-09 SPOKANE, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5799L

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AMERICAN AA-1

Year of manufacture

1969 · 7 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-235 SERIES (115 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19690827

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A77376

Registrant of record

YODER GEORGE R

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5799L AMER AVCO AA-1 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-1 · N5799L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

FELTS FIELD

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

210° / 7 kt

Temp

37° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000AA1-0199

Total time

2,027 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

16

Age

41

Investigator remarks

NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED,NOSED OVER.

Cause factors

64/C/25 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
64/B/62 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING
88/L/91 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS TOUCH AND GO LANDING
88/L/94 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE

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 3912. Source file NTSB_1976_3_3912.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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