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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA80FYP37

1980-09-04 COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1367R GRUM-AMER AA-1B 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

GRUM-AMER AA-1B · N1367R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

COEUR D'ALENE

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

080° / 8 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000AA1B0667

Total time

1,855 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

10,864

Age

60

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

IP DEMO OF RECOGNITION/RCVRY FM BEING LOW,NGT APCH

Investigator remarks

PLT BLOOD ALCOHOL LEVEL 0.07 PCT. RAN INTO WALL.

Cause factors

64/C/30 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT Cause
64/C/45 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE,SPEED,AND ALTITUDE Cause
64/L/65 L
PILOT IN COMMAND PHYSICAL IMPAIRMENT
88/L/67 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ALCOHOLIC IMPAIRMENT OF EFFICIENCY AND JUDGMENT
88/L/22 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS POORLY PLANNED APPROACH

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 2221. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2221.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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