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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN75FTE31

1974-10-04 AURORA, Colorado, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N14119 N.AMERICAN T-28A Fatal

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

N.AMERICAN T-28A · N14119

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

E.COLFAX AIRPARK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

58° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000051-3573

Total time

4,868 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

9,500

Age

35

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ICTED CATEGORY.ACFT HIT HIDDEN GULLY.

Investigator remarks

MAIN ACCESSORY DRIVE SHAFT C9223-A SHEARED.RESTR

Cause factors

74/C/LE C
POWERPLANT SHAFT,ACCESSORY DRIVE Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
83/B/E B
TERRAIN HIDDEN 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 3533. Source file NTSB_1974_3_3533.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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