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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN78FTE79

1978-07-24 BOULDER, Colorado, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N29639 Taylorcraft BC1265 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

TAYLORCRAFT BC1265 · N29639

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Temp

85° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002504

Total time

1,900 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

314

Age

37

Investigator remarks

FUEL VALVE BROKEN IN 3/4 OPEN POSITION.

Cause factors

64/C/01 C
PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION W/KNOWN DEFICIENCIES IN EQUIPMENT Cause
68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
74/C/CC C
POWERPLANT SELECTOR VALVES Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN

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 2750. Source file NTSB_1978_3_2750.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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