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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN73FTE29

1972-09-24 LARKSPUR, Colorado, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9785L Beech C23 Serious

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

BEECH C23 · N9785L

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D7

Operator type

L

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000M1395

Total time

290 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

840

Age

29

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

EDURES USED ACCORDING TO INSTR PLT.

Investigator remarks

UNABLE TO RECOVER FROM SPIN.PROPER RECOVERY PROC

Cause factors

84/C/I C
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED 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 3656. Source file NTSB_1972_3_3656.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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