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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN73DTM16

1973-01-27 TOOELE, Utah, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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 150G · N8447G

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015062547

Total time

1,894 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

238

Age

22

Investigator remarks

SIMULATED FORCED LDG.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/21 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause
  • 88/C/34 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ENGINE LOADED UP Cause
  • 83/B/B B
    TERRAIN SNOW-COVERED
  • 88/L/85 L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SIMULATED 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 0209. Source file NTSB_1973_3_0209.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.