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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN70FXD03

1970-02-07 PARKER, Colorado, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5147

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BOREDOM FIGHTER W11

Year of manufacture

2001

Engine

CONT MOTOR A&C65 SERIES (65 hp)

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20011120

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A67398

Registrant of record

GROAT STANLEY G

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

BRANDT BIRD F-1 · N5147

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

BETTS RANCH

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

220° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000061-6

Total time

87 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

319

Age

45

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

WITH CARB HEAT IN FULL HOT POSITION.

Investigator remarks

STRUCK HUMP IN RWY,BOUNCED. ATTEMPTED GO AROUND

Cause factors

  • 64/C/25 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
  • 64/B/21 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS
  • 88/B/02 B
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ANTI-ICING/DEICING EQUIPMENT-IMPROPER OPERATION OF/OR FAILED TO USE
  • 80/L/BK L
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES POORLY MAINTAINED RUNWAY SURFACE

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 0720. Source file NTSB_1970_3_0720.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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