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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN74FTE78

1974-05-21 ENGLEWOOD, Colorado, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N52681

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182P

Year of manufacture

1973 · 1 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19740114

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A6A2C2

Registrant of record

CLOUGH ROBERT

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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 · N52681

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

ARAPAHOE COUNTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

020° / 9 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018262766

Total time

19 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

69

Age

30

Investigator remarks

OVERSHOT 7000 FT RWY.FLAPS UP LANDING.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/46 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
  • 64/C/82 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND Cause
  • 64/L/71 L
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISUSED OR FAILED TO USE FLAPS
  • 88/L/22 L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS POORLY PLANNED APPROACH

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 1439. Source file NTSB_1974_3_1439.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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