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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN79DTE15

1979-01-01 CRESTED BUTTE, Colorado, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N973JB Cessna 310L 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

CESSNA 310L · N973JB

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

GRESTED BUTTE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

300° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000037

Total time

4,828 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

8,900

Age

27

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

N AIRCRAFT DESIGNED FOR.

Investigator remarks

AIRCRAFT OVERLOAD 155 LBS PLUS ONE PAX MORE THA

Cause factors

64/A/29 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/76 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY LOADED AIRCRAFT-WEIGHT-AND/OR C.G. Cause — pilot/personnel action
80/J/BD J
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SNOW WINDROWS Joint 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 0240. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0240.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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