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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN81FTE18

1981-01-24 AURORA, Colorado, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N91297

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AEROSTAR INTERNATIONAL INC S60H

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20070824

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ACA1CC

Registrant of record

SWINTON ROBERT A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N91297 Cessna 180H 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 180H · N91297

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

Business

Airport

COLUMBINE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 7 kt

Temp

35° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018052034

Total time

2,312 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

14,375

Age

65

Cause factors

64/A/79 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL 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 0365. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0365.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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