Amer Avco AA-1B N8969L

21 September 1981 · Marietta, Pennsylvania, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 21 September 1981 at about 19:00 local time, a Amer Avco AA-1B registered N8969L, operated by Flying Tigers, was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Marietta, Pennsylvania, 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: 21 September 1981 at 19:00
Classification: Accident
Location: Marietta, Pennsylvania, United States
Nearest airport: Elizabethtown
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Amer Avco AA-1B
Registration: N8969L
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: Flying Tigers
Operating rule: Flying School
Purpose of flight: Solo
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: S → Local
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-2012

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

RAN OFF RGT SIDE OF RWY INTO TALL CORN.

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 3-2012, 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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20 Aug 1976	Amer Avco AA-1B N9947L	Escalante, Utah, United States no coordinates	-	Serious injuries	-
29 Jun 1975	Amer Avco AA-1B N8868L	Gallup, New Mexico, United States no coordinates	-	Minor injuries	-

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