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Event DEN81FTE45

1981-06-12 CRESTED BUTTE, Colorado, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1206F

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA A185F

Year of manufacture

1975 · 6 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19750620

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A056E2

Registrant of record

HARRAH DANIEL R

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1206F Cessna 185F 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 185F · N1206F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

ROUSE FIELD

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

240° / 15 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018502769

Total time

1,534 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

ZA (ZA)

Total hours

1,937

Age

38

Investigator remarks

WIND GUSTS TO 25KTS.

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
64/B/06 B
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED ACTION IN ABORTING TAKEOFF
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS

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 3288. Source file NTSB_1981_3_3288.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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