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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN77DTE37

1977-05-01 LOVELAND, Colorado, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N36436 Bellanca 8KCAB 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

BELLANCA 8KCAB · N36436

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

FT COLLINS

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

330° / 10 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000111-73

Total time

625 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,115

Age

30

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

IN COCKPIT FOR SMOKE,SHUT ENG DN,RETURNED TO ARPT.

Investigator remarks

ENG CLEANED PRIOR TO FLT. AFT TKOF MISTOOK STEAM

Cause factors

64/A/44 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SPONTANEOUS-IMPROPER ACTION Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/13 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS NOT ALIGNED WITH RUNWAY/INTENDED LANDING AREA 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 0891. Source file NTSB_1977_3_0891.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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