Atlas / NTSB / DEN80DTE01

NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN80DTE01

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

Registry · N757HW

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BOEING 757-225

Year of manufacture

1982

Engine

ROLLS-ROYC RB211-535E437

Seats / Engines

178 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20250606

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA34CE

Registrant of record

HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N757HW Cessna T182RG 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

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

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

Beyond the agency record

Search this event elsewhere.

Pre-filled searches into the sources where news + community discussion of aviation events lives. External sources are reported, not agency. Treat them as signal that something happened, not as fact about what happened.

TallyAero Live Wire Aviation press

Entity-clustered aviation events in the press — last 24 hr + 30-day archive.

NTSB CAROL Agency ↗

Official agency record + docket.

NTSB Docket Agency ↗

Investigative docket: factual reports, photos, transcripts.

Aviation Safety Network Aviation press ↗

Long-running aviation incident database (Flight Safety Foundation).

Kathryn's Report Aviation press ↗

Community NTSB synthesis blog — often has photos and witness reports.

Aviation Herald Aviation press ↗

Gold-standard aviation incident blog.