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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN81FTE56

1981-07-09 CRESTED BUTTE, Colorado, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N36342 Piper 601P Minor

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

PIPER 601P · N36342

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

Business

Airport

CRESTED BUTTE

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

55° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

007738063386

Total time

352 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

5,725

Age

49

Cause factors

64/A/07 A
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND 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 2450. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2450.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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