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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN67F0156

1966-11-26 LITTLETON, Colorado, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8509W

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-235

Engine

LYCOMING 0-540 SERIES (250 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19630830

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ABAB00

Registrant of record

MORENO RODRIGO S

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8509W Piper PA-28 Minor

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 PA-28 · N8509W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

LITTLETON

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

090° / 20 kt

Temp

35° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,436 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

80

Age

22

Investigator remarks

RIGHT CROSS WIND 20 KNOTS GUSTY.

Cause factors

64/A/46 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/B/07 B
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND
82/J/H J
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS 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 3 3662. Source file NTSB_1966_3_3662.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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