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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN70FXD44

1970-06-28 LITTLETON, Colorado, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N78677 Cessna 172K Serious

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

CESSNA 172K · N78677

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

ARAPAHOE COUNTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 9 kt

Temp

68° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017257716

Total time

897 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

282

Age

24

Investigator remarks

HIT GND L WING FIRST ABT 2 MI SHORT OF RWY.

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
64/L/66 L
PILOT IN COMMAND SPATIAL DISORIENTATION

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 2775. Source file NTSB_1970_3_2775.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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