NTSB CAROL · Event
Event CHI73FEE53
Registry · N10DB
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
CESSNA 210M
Year of manufacture
1977
Engine
CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)
Seats / Engines
6 seats · 1 engine
Last airworthiness date
19770608
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S A002A8
Registrant of record
BRANDON DONALD A TRUSTEE
Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).
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
CESSNA 310L · N10DB
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
EE
Operator type
Business
Airport
GREATER ROCKFORD
Kind of flying
B0
Weather at impact
Sky
CLEAR
Aircraft history
Serial number
000310L-0201
Total time
1,711 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
2,700
Age
29
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
EEDED STOP JAMMED GR BOX.LDG GR MOTOR BURNED OUT.
Investigator remarks
LDG GR UP LIMIT SWITCH OUT OF ADJ.DRIVE MECH EXC
Cause factors
- 68/A/D6 A PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 70/A/CB A AIRFRAME NORMAL RETRACTION/EXTENSION ASSEMBLY Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 70/A/CC A AIRFRAME EMERGENCY/EXTENSION ASSEMBLY Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 70/A/CN A AIRFRAME SWITCHES,LEVERS,CRANKING MECHANISM,ETC. Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 75/A/AK A SYSTEMS MOTORS Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 88/A/CD A MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS JAMMED Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 75/J/AM J SYSTEMS PROTECTIVE DEVICES 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 1345.
Source file
NTSB_1973_3_1345.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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