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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN68F0172

1967-12-21 LITTLETON, Colorado, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5133P

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-24-180

Year of manufacture

1958 · 9 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19580703

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A66F63

Registrant of record

MOORE BUCK B

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5133P Piper PA-24 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

PIPER PA-24 · N5133P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

COLUMBINE

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

130° / 13 kt

Temp

7° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,991 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

7,820

Age

40

Investigator remarks

ATTEMPTED T/O WITH SNOW,FROST ON WINGS.

Cause factors

64/A/29 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/74 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRFRAME ICE Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 4473. Source file NTSB_1967_3_4473.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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