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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN74DTE60

1974-03-26 LAKE CITY, Colorado, United States Minor 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 · N9378G

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

280° / 15 kt

Temp

25° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018260918

Total time

780 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,750

Age

34

Investigator remarks

CARBURETOR FLOODED WHEN FUEL PRESS EXCEEDED 2PSI

Cause factors

  • 74/C/CG C
    POWERPLANT CARBURETOR Cause
  • 88/C/34 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ENGINE LOADED UP Cause
  • 83/B/I B
    TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS

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 0500. Source file NTSB_1974_3_0500.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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