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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN77FTE71

1977-08-12 AURORA, Colorado, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6725N

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MOONEY M20C

Year of manufacture

1968 · 9 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19680229

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A8E63A

Registrant of record

B RYAN ENTERPRISES INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6725N Mooney M20C 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

MOONEY M20C · N6725N

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Day

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

COLUMBINE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Temp

53° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000680052

Total time

1,460 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,697

Age

54

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ND LOADER

Investigator remarks

PATCHES OF FOG IN AREA AIRCRAFT SLID INTO FRONTE

Cause factors

64/C/21 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause
88/C/02 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ANTI-ICING/DEICING EQUIPMENT-IMPROPER OPERATION OF/OR FAILED TO USE Cause
88/C/72 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ICE-CARBURETOR Cause
83/L/G L
TERRAIN ROUGH WATER

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 2059. Source file NTSB_1977_3_2059.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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