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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN79FA050

1979-07-19 NORTHGLENN, Colorado, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N291NC AERO COMDR 680FL 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 680FL · N291NC

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000146186

Total time

5,690 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

5,026

Age

49

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ON LT ENG.RED PARTICLES FOUND IN #7 FUEL INJECTOR.

Investigator remarks

PRIMER LINE INSTALLED IN PLACE OF INJECTOR LINE

Cause factors

68/C/D0 C
PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) Cause
74/C/CI C
POWERPLANT FUEL INJECTION SYSTEM Cause
74/C/CB C
POWERPLANT LINES AND FITTINGS Cause
88/C/CB C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY INSTALLED Cause
74/C/KE C
POWERPLANT DETONATION Cause
88/C/CF C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OBSTRUCTED Cause
64/B/27 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT DECISIONS OR PLANNING
88/B/08 B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEATHERED WRONG ENGINE

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 3967. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3967.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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