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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN70FXD31

1970-06-06 LOVELAND, Colorado, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9959Y

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA T210N

Year of manufacture

1982

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ADE8E0

Registrant of record

GRAND AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9959Y Champion 7GCBA 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

CHAMPION 7GCBA · N9959Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DE

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000018

Total time

939 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,217

Age

30

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RX 70GAL OF SPRAY.HIT CURB IN SCHOOL PARKING LOT.

Investigator remarks

OPERATING WITH PARTIAL FUEL LOADING TO OFFSET AP

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
83/B/Y B
TERRAIN OTHER

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 2360. Source file NTSB_1970_3_2360.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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