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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN80DTE57

1980-06-24 ELBERT, Colorado, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N79CS

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PILATUS AIRCRAFT LTD PC-12

Year of manufacture

1995

Engine

P&W CANADA PT6A-67B (1200 hp)

Seats / Engines

12 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20190524

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AAB5EF

Registrant of record

FORD GT HOLDINGS LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N79CS BLN WORKS FF-7 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

BLN WORKS FF-7 · N79CS

Damage

None

Craft type

D

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 20 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000007879

Total time

222 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

516

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

KTS.

Investigator remarks

WND INCREASED AFTER TKOF FR LGT & VARIABLE TO 20

Cause factors

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 2524. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2524.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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