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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN75FTE16

1974-07-20 CANON CITY, Colorado, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2657Y

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 180E

Year of manufacture

1962 · 12 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19700512

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A294F4

Registrant of record

NAGY LESLIE S

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 180 · N2657Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

FREMONT COUNTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018051157

Total time

5,000 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

750

Age

41

Cause factors

  • 64/C/22 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
  • 64/C/79 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
  • 64/L/31 L
    PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT
  • 88/K/94 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 2825. Source file NTSB_1974_3_2825.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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