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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN79FQA16

1979-01-28 LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8165T

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 175B

Year of manufacture

1960 · 19 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR GO-300 SERIES (175 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19601121

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB22BF

Registrant of record

EUBANKS JAMES D

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 175 · N8165T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

LOS ALAMOS

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017556865

Total time

2,023 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

172

Age

22

Cause factors

  • 64/C/21 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause
  • 88/C/02 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ANTI-ICING/DEICING EQUIPMENT-IMPROPER OPERATION OF/OR FAILED TO USE Cause
  • 88/C/72 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ICE-CARBURETOR Cause
  • 82/L/G L
    WEATHER CONDITIONS CONDUCIVE TO CARB./INDUCTION SYSTEM ICING

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 0320. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0320.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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