FTW84LA161 · American Aviation Corp. (AAC) AA-1A
American Aviation Corp. (AAC) AA-1A · Accident: in flight encounter with weather en route
From 14R · Caldwell, TX to San Antonio, TX
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Event
- NTSB case
- FTW84LA161
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Instrument Meteorological Cond
American Aviation Corp. (AAC) AA-1A
- Aircraft type
- American Aviation Corp (aac) AA-1
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N9460L
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route Possible conflict
- From 14R · Caldwell, TXTo San Antonio, TX
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- En route · cruise
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- In flight encounter with weather
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Became lost/disoriented
- Pilot in command › Compensation for wind conditions, inadequate
- Pilot in command › Flight into known adverse weather, intentional
- Pilot in command › Weather forecast, disregarded
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE PVT NON-INSTRUMENT PLT RECEIVED TWO WX BRIEFINGS FOR HIS ROUTE OF FLT FROM MADISON, MS, TO LUFKIN, TX, TO COLLEGE STATION, TX, TO SAN ANTONIO, TX. THE LAST BRIEFING FROM COLLEGE STATION FSS INFORMED THE PLT THAT MARGINAL VFR CONDITIONS EXSISTED ALONG THE ROUTE AND SAN ANTONIO WAS REPORTED IFR. THE PLT DEPARTED COLLEGE STATION AND REPORTED THATWHEN NEAR LOCKHART, TX, A DESCENT TO 1500 FT MSL WAS PERFORMED TO MAINTAIN IN VMC. WHEN ATTEMPTS TO CONTACT AUSTIN APCH FAILED THE PLT TURNED AROUND TO PROCEED TO SMITHVILLE, TX, AND SAID HE OVER COMPENSATED FOR THE X-WIND AND BECAME DISORIENTED. AFTER FLYING AROUND FOR SOMETIME IT BEGAN TO GET DARK SO THE PLT DECIDED TO LAND ON A ROAD. DURING THE LANDING ROLL A GUST OF WIND CAUGHT THE ACFT AND THE LEFT WING CONTACTED A FENCE.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record FTW84LA161
- Event ID
- 20001214X39031
- Case number
- FTW84LA161
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: local date, investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date; the NTSB stores the UTC date 1984-03-12.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 9f74915c6d27373c8cfe45a8f690b05724b0fa0d594ac628b22491ecaca3bc28; retrieved 2026-09-23T20:45:36.530Z.