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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN76FTE63

1976-04-25 ENGLEWOOD, Colorado, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2653Q

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182K

Year of manufacture

1966 · 10 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19661230

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A29460

Registrant of record

MOSES AND ASSOCIATES INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2653Q Cessna 182K 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

CESSNA 182K · N2653Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B0

Operator type

D

Airport

ARAPAHOE COUNTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

140° / 20 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018257853

Total time

3,797 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

188

Age

46

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

L BRAKE INOP.NO BRAKE MALF FOUND.

Investigator remarks

WENT DOWN EMBANKMENT AVOIDING OTR ACFT.PLT SAID

Cause factors

64/C/22 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
84/L/7 L
MISCELLANEOUS EVASIVE MANEUVER TO AVOID COLLISION

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 0925. Source file NTSB_1976_3_0925.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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