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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN77FTM29

1977-09-12 CEDAR CITY, Utah, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2958G Callair A-6 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

CALLAIR A-6 · N2958G

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DK

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000313

Total time

878 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,000

Age

33

Investigator remarks

MORNING DOVE BLOCKED AIR INTAKE.

Cause factors

74/C/KB C
POWERPLANT BIRD INGESTION Cause
88/C/CF C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OBSTRUCTED 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 3244. Source file NTSB_1977_3_3244.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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