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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN79FTE80

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

Aircraft involved

N60HD VARIEZE 1 Serious

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

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). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

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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