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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN66A0054

1966-01-12 DENVER, Colorado, 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

BOEING B-720B · N57204

Damage

None

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Aircraft history

Total time

14,592 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

8,000

Age

30

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

MISC-AN UNANNOUNCED ABRUPT FLT MANEUVER

Investigator remarks

STAB.TRIM MANEUVER EXECUTED-TRAINEE FELL IN CABN

Cause factors

  • 84/A/J A
    MISCELLANEOUS WRITTEN CAUSE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/1/30 1
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT Subordinate · 1

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 1 0002. Source file NTSB_1966_1_0002.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.