Event DEN67I0069

1967-04-30 DENVER, Colorado, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N57208 Boeing B-720B 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

BOEING B-720B · N57208

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

EE

Airport

STAPLETON INTL

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

5,400

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TINGUISHNG DURING LNDG GO-AROUND.

Investigator remarks

NO.4 ENG CONTACTED RNWY,CAUGHT FIRE.FIRE SELF EX

Cause factors

88/K/51 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN ENGINE Joint factor

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 4 0020. Source file NTSB_1967_4_0020.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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