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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN71DXD13

1970-07-06 LITTLETON, Colorado, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8043N Piper PA-28 Minor

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 · N8043N

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

COLUMBINE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

86° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000028-25768

Total time

789 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

173

Age

18

Investigator remarks

LND IN WHEAT FLD.

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
83/K/D K
TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION Joint factor
88/L/91 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS TOUCH AND GO LANDING
64/3/32 3
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Subordinate · 3
88/3/96 3
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Subordinate · 3

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 1323. Source file NTSB_1970_3_1323.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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