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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN69D0203

1969-02-02 LITTLETON, Colorado, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N77074

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

DEHAVILLAND DHC-1B-2-S5

Year of manufacture

1956 · 13 years old at event

Engine

AMA/EXPR UNKNOWN ENG

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20111009

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA6C71

Registrant of record

FINCH GREGORY V

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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

CESSNA 140 · N77074

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

COLUMBINE AIRPARK

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

2,156 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

495

Age

39

Investigator remarks

HIT SIGN POST.

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 0377. Source file NTSB_1969_3_0377.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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