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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN80FTE27

1980-02-14 EAGLE, Colorado, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N26WD

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SCHLEICHER ALEXANDER GMBH & CO ASH 26 E

Year of manufacture

1995

Engine

AMA/EXPR UNKNOWN ENG

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19950331

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A27E9C

Registrant of record

D2D CORP

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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 500 · N26WD

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Business

Airport

EAGLE COUNTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

280° / 4 kt

Temp

33° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

2,648

Age

34

Investigator remarks

PATCHES OF WATER ON RWY.FLD ELEV 6539FT MSL.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/35 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause
  • 82/L/W L
    WEATHER HIGH DENSITY ALTITUDE
  • 80/L/BA L
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES WET RUNWAY
  • 88/L/92 L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS HYDROPLANING ON WET RUNWAY
  • 88/L/DH L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RAN OFF END OF RUNWAY
  • 88/K/94 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 0403. Source file NTSB_1980_3_0403.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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