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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN65D0113

1965-04-29 LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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

PIPER PA28 · N6437W

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EY

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

320 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

46

Age

20

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

N EXCEEDED CLIMB PERFORMANCE OF AIRCRAFT

Investigator remarks

PLT FLEW INTO MT AREA TOO LOW AND RISE OF TERRAI

Cause factors

  • 88/A/20 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FLEW INTO BLIND CANYON Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/W J
    WEATHER HIGH DENSITY ALTITUDE Joint cause

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 2 0269. Source file NTSB_1965_2_0269.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.