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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN82FA014

1981-12-31 PUEBLO, Colorado, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6272N Cessna 340A 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

CESSNA 340A · N6272N

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D2

Operator type

E

Airport

PUEBLO MEMORIAL

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

060° / 6 kt

Temp

28° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000340A0457

Total time

958 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

5,299

Age

34

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RX 30 INCHES MANIFOLD PRES.

Investigator remarks

SHUT DWN L ENG AFT L THROTTLE CABLE JAMMED AT AP

Cause factors

74/C/I0 C
POWERPLANT THROTTLE-POWER LEVER ASSEMBLIES Cause
88/C/CD C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS JAMMED Cause
64/B/16 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED

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 3648. Source file NTSB_1981_3_3648.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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