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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN82FTE13

1981-12-20 WATKINS, Colorado, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8524P RAND KR-2 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

RAND KR-2 · N8524P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

COLUMBINE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 10 kt

Temp

50° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000CL5-1

Total time

13 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

126

Age

43

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ECTS FIBERGLASS TNKS FLAKED AFT EXPOSURE TO FUEL.

Investigator remarks

FUEL FILTER OBSTD W FLAKES OF UNKN MTRL.PLT SUSP

Cause factors

68/C/D8 C
PERSONNEL OTHER Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION 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 3140. Source file NTSB_1981_3_3140.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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