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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN71DXD19

1970-08-08 AURORA, Colorado, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N77PC

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER J3C-65

Year of manufacture

1946 · 24 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR A&C65 SERIES (65 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA67F6

Registrant of record

BUEHN ROBERT A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N77PC VOLKSPLANE WE-1 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

VOLKSPLANE WE-1 · N77PC

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

EAST COLFAX

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

210° / 6 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000002888638

Total time

10 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,679

Age

45

Investigator remarks

20 MIN RECORDED THIS MAKE AND MODEL.

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
64/B/31 B
PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT
64/B/25 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF

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 1242. Source file NTSB_1970_3_1242.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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