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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN81FTE09

1980-12-05 COLORADO SPRGS, Colorado, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N65912

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA T182T

Year of manufacture

2004

TCDS

3A13 · TEXTRON AVIATION INC

Engine

LYCOMING TI0-540 SER (310 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20041223

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A8B0BF

Registrant of record

LIMA ALFA LLC

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

SCHWEIZER SGS1 · N65912

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

C

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — level (EA)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

BLK FOREST GLDPRT

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 20 kt

Temp

40° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000084

Total time

1,693 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

87

Age

43

Cause factors

  • 64/A/52 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED ALTITUDE AND CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/1/AW 1
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 1

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 3635. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3635.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.