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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN72FTE33

1972-06-01 ENGLEWOOD, Colorado, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5311Q Cessna T337D 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

CESSNA T337D · N5311Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Business

Airport

ARAPAHOE

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000337-1093

Total time

230 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,105

Age

23

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LOST PWR.REAR ENG KNOWN ROUGH.RAN OFF SIDE OF RWY

Investigator remarks

WING TIP VENT SYS INSTALLED IN REVERSE.FRONT ENG

Cause factors

68/C/D0 C
PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) Cause
74/C/CJ C
POWERPLANT VENTS,DRAINS,TANK CAPS Cause
88/C/CB C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY INSTALLED Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
64/C/01 C
PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION W/KNOWN DEFICIENCIES IN EQUIPMENT Cause
64/B/06 B
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED ACTION IN ABORTING TAKEOFF
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 2019. Source file NTSB_1972_3_2019.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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