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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN72DTE71

1972-05-22 LITTLETON, Colorado, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8394Z

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 210-5(205)

Year of manufacture

1963 · 9 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR I0-470 SERIES (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19630508

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB7CC5

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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 205 · N8394Z

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

COLUMBINE

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000002050394

Total time

1,810 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

55

Age

40

Investigator remarks

NOSE TIRE BLEW,RAN OFF RWY.NO DUAL PREV 90DAYS.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/25 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
  • 70/B/CF B
    AIRFRAME WHEELS,TIRES,AXLES
  • 88/B/95 B
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE
  • 64/L/02 L
    PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION BEYOND EXPERIENCE/ABILITY LEVEL
  • 88/3/AW 3
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT 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 1859. Source file NTSB_1972_3_1859.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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