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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN74FTE03

1973-07-06 LITTLETON, Colorado, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7744P

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BALONY KUBICEK SPOL SRO BB22XR

Year of manufacture

2021

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20221011

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA7AD5

Registrant of record

BOULET MARK D

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7744P Piper PA-24 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

PIPER PA-24 · N7744P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

ARAPAHO CTY APT

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

310° / 14 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000024-2959

Total time

3,139 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

4,133

Age

45

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

POSITION.

Investigator remarks

THROTTLE CTL CABLE,P/N 455-185, FAILED IN CLOSED

Cause factors

74/C/I0 C
POWERPLANT THROTTLE-POWER LEVER ASSEMBLIES Cause
88/C/BM C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DISCONNECTED Cause
64/B/12 B
PILOT IN COMMAND RETRACTED GEAR PREMATURELY

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 2430. Source file NTSB_1973_3_2430.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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