Amer Avco AA1-B N9602L

18 August 1974 · Concord, California, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 18 August 1974 at about 10:30 local time, a Amer Avco AA1-B registered N9602L, operated by Gaffney Aviati, was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Concord, California, United States. One person was on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 18 August 1974 at 10:30
Classification: Accident
Location: Concord, California, United States
Nearest airport: Buchanan Field
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Amer Avco AA1-B
Registration: N9602L
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: Gaffney Aviati
Operating rule: Fixed Base Operator
Purpose of flight: Solo
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: S → Local
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-2409

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
1	0	0	0	1

Probable cause

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. No probable cause statement is present in the source data.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

Read the full NTSB narrative

TWR PERS OBSVD PLT LND HARD THEN GO ARND. GR FAILED NEXT LDG.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

No coordinates. The source record does not contain a latitude and longitude, so this accident cannot be shown on the map. Everything else about it is on this page.

Source

NTSB record 3-2409, from the public aviation accident database.

Records from before 1982 are not in the NTSB's online investigation search. The full dataset can be downloaded from data.ntsb.gov/avdata.

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