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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN71DXD20

1970-08-15 WALSH, Colorado, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8737L

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BOEING 737-8

Year of manufacture

2020

TCDS

A16WE · BOEING

Engine

CFM INTL LEAP-1B27 SER

Seats / Engines

175 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20201203

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC04D3

Registrant of record

WILMINGTON TRUST CO TRUSTEE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8737L Piper PA-25 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

PIPER PA-25 · N8737L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

315° / 10 kt

Temp

85° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000025-5214

Total time

200 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

2,800

Age

29

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

CROSSWIND COR,HIT DITCH.SPRAYING WEEDS.

Investigator remarks

TKOF FRM FARM ROAD,R WING CAUGHT TALL WEEDS DRG

Cause factors

64/A/35 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
83/J/D J
TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION Joint cause

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 3495. Source file NTSB_1970_3_3495.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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