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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN73DTE03

1972-07-08 ENGLEWOOD, Colorado, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2010B

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

LUSCOMBE 8A

Year of manufacture

1948 · 24 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR A&C65 SERIES (65 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19571119

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A19814

Registrant of record

SALE REPORTED

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

LUSCOMBE 8A · N2010B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

ARAPAHOE COUNTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

200° / 7 kt

Temp

73° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000006437

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

70

Age

31

Cause factors

  • 64/C/22 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
  • 82/L/H L
    WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS

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 2087. Source file NTSB_1972_3_2087.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.