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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN74DTE38

1973-12-14 STRATTON, Colorado, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N49112 Aeronca L-3 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

AERONCA L-3 · N49112

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C8

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

DK

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

315° / 8 kt

Temp

37° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000058136512

Total time

1,301 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

5,000

Age

36

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PILOT-SLIPPED IN BOARDING ACFT,FELL TO GRND.

Investigator remarks

ACFT TOOK OFF UNMANNED.

Cause factors

84/A/J A
MISCELLANEOUS WRITTEN CAUSE Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 3809. Source file NTSB_1973_3_3809.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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