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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN81FTE61

1981-07-20 ROCKY FORD, Colorado, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8068Y RAND KR-2 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

RAND KR-2 · N8068Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

130° / 8 kt

Temp

103° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002616

Total time

172 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

460

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

SHIELD BTWN MAG & EXHAUST/TURBO UNITS.

Investigator remarks

NO COWL FLAPS,NO RAM AIR COOLING TO MAG,NO HEAT

Cause factors

68/C/J6 C
PERSONNEL OTHER Cause
74/C/E5 C
POWERPLANT JACKETS Cause
88/C/90 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MISSING Cause
64/L/01 L
PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION W/KNOWN DEFICIENCIES IN EQUIPMENT
82/J/U J
WEATHER HIGH TEMPERATURE Joint cause

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 3229. Source file NTSB_1981_3_3229.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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