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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN74DQA33

1974-02-28 LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3403L Cessna U206 Minor

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 U206 · N3403L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

00U-206-0703

Total time

2,484 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

936

Age

48

Investigator remarks

THROTTLE LINKAGE SEPARATED AT THROTTLE VALVE.

Cause factors

74/C/I0 C
POWERPLANT THROTTLE-POWER LEVER ASSEMBLIES Cause
88/C/BM C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DISCONNECTED Cause
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 0236. Source file NTSB_1974_3_0236.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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