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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN73FTE71

1973-04-22 WALSENBURG, Colorado, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N109Q

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH V35

Year of manufacture

1966 · 7 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19660408

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A02781

Registrant of record

SHARIFF DIANE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N109Q Beech V35 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

BEECH V35 · N109Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 5 kt

Temp

55° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000D-8126

Total time

1,398 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

490

Age

44

Investigator remarks

NR 3 CONROD CAP BOLTS FAILED.

Cause factors

74/C/AC C
POWERPLANT MASTER AND CONNECTING RODS Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
88/B/DG B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTENTIONAL WHEELS-UP
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN

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 1150. Source file NTSB_1973_3_1150.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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