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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN73FTE24

1972-09-05 ENGLEWOOD, Colorado, 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 182 · N9334X

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

E

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

ARAPAHOE COUNTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 20 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018253734

Total time

3,389 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

79

Age

19

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

G AND CESSNA 182,N7035G,CAUSED MINOR DMG.

Investigator remarks

ACFT HIT PARKED MOONEY,N5768Q,CAUSED SUBSTNTL DM

Cause factors

  • 64/C/29 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
  • 64/A/28 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/B/79 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL
  • 64/L/80 L
    PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND
  • 64/L/02 L
    PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION BEYOND EXPERIENCE/ABILITY LEVEL
  • 64/K/14 K
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OTHER AIRCRAFT 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 3365. Source file NTSB_1972_3_3365.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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