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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN78FA062

1978-08-16 BROOMFIELD, Colorado, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N560S AERO COMDR 560A 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

AERO COMDR 560A · N560S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Day

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

D

Airport

JEFFCO

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

190° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000236

Total time

5,406 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,749

Age

25

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

MMED,UNABLE RESTART.PROP NOT FEATHERED.D/A 7000FT.

Investigator remarks

PIC CUT MIX AT 500FT.CARB IDLE-CUTOFF PLUNGER JA

Cause factors

68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
74/C/CG C
POWERPLANT CARBURETOR Cause
88/C/CD C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS JAMMED Cause
64/B/20 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC.
64/B/21 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS
82/L/W L
WEATHER HIGH DENSITY ALTITUDE
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 2749. Source file NTSB_1978_3_2749.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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