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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN7LFTE15

1975-08-14 ENGLEWOOD, Colorado, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N55923 Piper PA-28 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

PIPER PA-28 · N55923

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — level (EA)

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Airport

ARAPAHOE COUNTY

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

320° / 8 kt

Temp

57° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0028-7325530

Total time

1,888 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

151

Age

20

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OLD.

Investigator remarks

LANDED HARD IN CONSTRUCTION AREA SHORT OF THRESH

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
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint factor
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
88/K/AS K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LANDED IN CONSTRUCTION AREA Joint factor
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 2354. Source file NTSB_1975_3_2354.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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