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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN79FTE86

1979-09-26 WELLINGTON, Colorado, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7871S Bellanca 8GCBC 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

BELLANCA 8GCBC · N7871S

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

WAVERLY WEST

Kind of flying

DI

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

270° / 40 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000229-76

Total time

1,188 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

6,352

Age

61

Investigator remarks

WIND GUSTS TO 45KTS.

Cause factors

64/A/33 A
PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/A/H A
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 3314. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3314.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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