NTSB CAROL · Event
Event DEN76FTC39
Registry · N111PJ
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
CESSNA 340A
Year of manufacture
1981
Engine
CONT MOTOR TSIO-520 SER (300 hp)
Seats / Engines
6 seats · 2 engines
Last airworthiness date
19810420
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S A03138
Registrant of record
G&L AVIATION SERVICES LLC
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
STEEN SKY BOLT · N111PJ
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D7
Operator type
D
Airport
RIVERTON MUNI
Kind of flying
B0
Weather at impact
Sky
CLEAR
Temp
88° F
Aircraft history
Serial number
000000000001
Total time
131 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
220
Age
28
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
IMPACT ON RUNWAY.
Investigator remarks
INVERTED FLT 500FT ABOVE RUNWAY.ACFT SPLIT S TO
Cause factors
- 64/A/52 A PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED ALTITUDE AND CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 88/A/14 A MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS UNWARRANTED LOW FLYING Cause — pilot/personnel action
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 2117.
Source file
NTSB_1976_3_2117.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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- arXiv 2016 · arXiv preprint
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