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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN81FTM14

1981-03-18 PROVO, Utah, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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

QUICKIE · N8523C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — level (EA)

Operator type

D

Airport

PROVO

Kind of flying

DA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

45° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000296

Total time

44 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

132

Age

40

Cause factors

  • 74/C/KA C
    POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
  • 83/K/A K
    TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND Joint factor

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 0374. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0374.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.