Grum-Amer AA-5A N9983U

12 October 1979 · Cold Spring, Texas, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 12 October 1979 at about 15:15 local time, a Grum-Amer AA-5A registered N9983U was involved in an accident during in flight near Cold Spring, Texas, United States. 2 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 12 October 1979 at 15:15
Classification: Accident
Location: Cold Spring, Texas, United States
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Grum-Amer AA-5A
Registration: N9983U
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: Not recorded
Operating rule: Private Owner
Purpose of flight: Pleasure
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: Anahauc, Tx → Huntsville, Tx
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-2538

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
2	0	0	0	2

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.

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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 3-2538, 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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