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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA79DYE48

1979-09-14 FRIDAY HARBOR, Washington, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N26832 GRUM-AMER AA-5A Minor

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 AA-5A · N26832

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

FRIDAY HARBOR

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

85° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000AA5A-0752

Total time

237 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

148

Age

29

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
64/C/07 C
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND Cause
64/L/31 L
PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT
88/3/AW 3
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 3

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 2454. Source file NTSB_1979_3_2454.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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