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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN70D0060

1969-07-04 LAKE CITY, Colorado, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

PIPER PA-24 · N7335P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

VC BARR RANCH

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000024-2514

Total time

1,479 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,200

Age

32

Investigator remarks

PWR APCH TO LDG.PWR ABV GR WARN HORN LIMIT.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/10 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO EXTEND LANDING GEAR Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/03 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CHECKLIST-FAILED TO USE 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 2632. Source file NTSB_1969_3_2632.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.