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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN81FTE25

1981-03-15 AURORA, Colorado, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2453S

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA T210L

Year of manufacture

1976 · 5 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR TSIO-520 SER (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19760630

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A24564

Registrant of record

FILIPPONI-THOMPSON DRILLING INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2453S Cessna 337 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 337 · N2453S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

COLUMBINA

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

045° / 3 kt

Temp

50° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000003370735

Total time

3,097 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,756

Age

40

Cause factors

66/C/25 C
DUAL STUDENT Cause
64/C/30 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT Cause
64/B/07 B
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND

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 0366. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0366.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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