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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA78DYP29

1978-06-03 PROSSER, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N26410

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

GRUMMAN AMERICAN AA-5A

Year of manufacture

1978 · 0 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19780412

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A2906D

Registrant of record

VILLANUEVA FRANCISCO B

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N26410 GRUM AMER AA5-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

GRUM AMER AA5-A · N26410

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

BEARDSLEY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

88° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000AA540570

Total time

64 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

66

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ORTED. HIT SIGN POST.

Investigator remarks

PLT ALLOWED ACFT TO DESCEND TO RWY TWICE,THEN AB

Cause factors

64/C/23 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
88/K/DH K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RAN OFF END OF RUNWAY 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 1365. Source file NTSB_1978_3_1365.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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