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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN72FTE31

1971-09-11 LITTLETON, Colorado, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9162W

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-235

Year of manufacture

1968 · 3 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-540 SERIES (250 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ACAFA8

Registrant of record

YANKA ANTHONY JOSEPH

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9162W Piper PA-28 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-28 · N9162W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Z

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

COLUMBINE

Kind of flying

DZ

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000028-11096

Total time

1,268 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

ZA (ZA)

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

E ON ARRIVAL AT ACDNT SITE.INJURY INDEX PRESUMED.

Investigator remarks

WITNESSES SAW ACFT TKOF.CRASH NEARBY.FOUND NO ON

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/26 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS STOLEN OR UNAUTHORIZED USE OF AIRCRAFT 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 3839. Source file NTSB_1971_3_3839.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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