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DEN79FTE80

1979-09-01 · FORT COLLINS, Colorado, United States · Serious · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
VARIEZE 1 · N60HD
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
D
Airport
FT COLLINS-LVLAND
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number
000000000602
Total time
20 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
DA (DA)
Total hours
8,490
Age
32

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

UCT TAPE,NOT FOUND DURING INVESTIGATION.

Investigator remarks

EXTRA COUNTER WEIGHT ADDED TO BELL CRANK USING D

Cause factors

  • 70/A/D0 A
    AIRFRAME ELEVATOR ASSEMBLY,ATTACHMENTS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/29 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY SECURED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/BT A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FLUTTER Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/49 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT Joint cause
  • 88/J/77 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTERFERENCE WITH FLIGHT CONTROLS Joint cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 3377. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3377.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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