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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI80FER40

1980-05-18 MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, 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

CESSNA 210 · N732XM

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

MINNEAPOLIS-ST PA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Temp

51° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000021061857

Total time

1,432 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

700

Age

28

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LT UN LOCK RMG DOWN.

Investigator remarks

DRG LDG,PREV FLT,R MAIN GR HIT UNK OBJECT.NEXT F

Cause factors

  • 64/A/01 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION W/KNOWN DEFICIENCIES IN EQUIPMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 70/A/CA A
    AIRFRAME MAIN GEAR-SHOCK ABSORBING ASSY,STRUTS,ATTACHMENTS,ETC. Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/AZ A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS BENT 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 1081. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1081.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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