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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN77FTE44

1977-05-18 ENGLEWOOD, Colorado, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9968D Piper PA-22 Serious

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

PIPER PA-22 · N9968D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

ARAPAHOE COUNTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

180° / 15 kt

Temp

50° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000022-6759

Total time

2,556 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

150

Age

56

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

STING TO 25 KTS

Investigator remarks

PLT CERTIFICATE UNDER 120 DAY SUSPENSION WIND GU

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/J/H J
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Joint cause

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 1597. Source file NTSB_1977_3_1597.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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