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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN67D0241

1967-04-01 LITTLETON, Colorado, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4956V

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 172RG

Year of manufacture

1980

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19800401

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A625E9

Registrant of record

ALPHA VESSELCO LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4956V Aeronca L-16 None

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

AERONCA L-16 · N4956V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

J

Airport

COLUMBINE

Kind of flying

A2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

1,753 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,515

Age

24

Cause factors

66/C/79 C
DUAL STUDENT Cause
64/C/30 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT 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 3 0995. Source file NTSB_1967_3_0995.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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