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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN77FTE40

1977-05-04 ENGLEWOOD, Colorado, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N784SC Cessna 210J Minor

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 210J · N784SC

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D2

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

240° / 8 kt

Temp

58° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000021059104

Total time

3,509 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

375

Age

32

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

WORN BEYOND MANUFACTURER'S LIMITS.

Investigator remarks

FUEL PUMP LINER WHICH HOUSES THE PUMP VANES WAS

Cause factors

74/C/CH C
POWERPLANT PUMPS Cause
88/C/98 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER CLEARANCE-TOLERANCE Cause
68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint factor

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 1056. Source file NTSB_1977_3_1056.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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