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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN81FTE66

1981-08-07 AKRON, Colorado, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1665G

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

DJI AGRAS T40

0

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A10B06

Registrant of record

AGABOVE LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1665G Aeronca 7ECA Serious

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

AERONCA 7ECA · N1665G

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

D

Airport

AKRON

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

360° / 10 kt

Temp

85° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000639

Total time

2,430 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

971

Age

55

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED 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 2456. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2456.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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