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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN70A0036

1969-12-03 SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N714X

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

EXTRA FLUGZEUGBAU GMBH EA-300

Year of manufacture

1991

Engine

LYCOMING AEIO-540-L1B5 (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20061116

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A98CF6

Registrant of record

CORDA STEPHEN

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

LEAR 24 · N714X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

EY

Operator type

Business

Airport

SLC INTERNATIONAL

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

PARTIAL OBSCURATION

Wind

315° / 4 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000103

Total time

1,160 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

15,650

Age

45

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

CFT.CONTROLLER FATIGUE.

Investigator remarks

MINIMUM HORIZONTAL SEPARATION NOT PROVIDED LDG A

Cause factors

  • 68/C/G6 C
    PERSONNEL INADEQUATE SPACING OF AIRCRAFT Cause
  • 84/C/1 C
    MISCELLANEOUS VORTEX TURBULENCE 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 3740. Source file NTSB_1969_3_3740.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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