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DEN80DTE01

1979-10-12 · WOLCOTT, Colorado, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N757HW has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (BOEING 757-225, built 1982), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
CESSNA T182RG · N757HW
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
K
Kind of flying
B3

Weather at impact

Sky
BROKEN
Wind
250° / 4 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number
000R18201285
Total time
12 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Flight instructor (CFI)
Total hours
2,950
Age
40

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RE APPROX 1200FT ABV CANYON FLOOR.

Investigator remarks

SUPPORT CABLES LOCATED ABOVE POWER LINES THAT WE

Cause factors

  • 64/A/15 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action

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

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 3341. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3341.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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