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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN79FTE51

1979-06-23 ELBERT, Colorado, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N4128P Piper PA-23 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

PIPER PA-23 · N4128P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

FLYING LAZY D

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Temp

62° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000023-1608

Total time

3,352 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,956

Age

54

Investigator remarks

RUDDER TRIM FULL NOSE LEFT.

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
88/L/56 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INCORRECT TRIM SETTING

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 1522. Source file NTSB_1979_3_1522.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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