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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN70DQA15

1970-04-18 ROSWELL, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8235N Piper PA-28 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-28 · N8235N

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

BOTTOMLESS LAKES

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

230° / 20 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000028-25442

Total time

823 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

22

Age

18

Investigator remarks

WIND GUSTING 30 KT.

Cause factors

64/C/02 C
PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION BEYOND EXPERIENCE/ABILITY LEVEL Cause
64/C/24 C
PILOT IN COMMAND PREMATURE LIFT-OFF Cause
64/C/28 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause
82/C/H C
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Cause
83/B/I B
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS

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 0565. Source file NTSB_1970_3_0565.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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