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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN77DTE65

1977-07-10 COLORADO SPRGS, Colorado, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1130B

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

DASSAULT AVIATION FALCON 900EX

Year of manufacture

2014

Engine

HONEYWELL TFE731-60-1C

Seats / Engines

21 seats · 3 engines

Last airworthiness date

20150925

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A039B2

Registrant of record

MJB TRI-MOTOR 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

LUSCOMBE 8E · N1130B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

MEADOWLAKE

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 7 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000005757

Total time

1,345 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

20

Age

23

Investigator remarks

PILOT TRIED TO STRETCH GLIDE.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/25 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/22 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS POORLY PLANNED APPROACH 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 2062. Source file NTSB_1977_3_2062.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.