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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN78FA033

1978-03-14 PARKER, Colorado, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N757CP

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 525A

Year of manufacture

2002

Engine

WILLIAMS FJ 44 SERIES

Seats / Engines

8 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20020426

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA344A

Registrant of record

APS AVIATION 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

CESSNA 152 · N757CP

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015279635

Total time

550 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

13

Age

33

Investigator remarks

PRACTICE SLOW FLIGHT.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED 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 0672. Source file NTSB_1978_3_0672.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.