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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI82FEK02

1981-10-30 COLUMBUS, Ohio, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1697X Cessna 210L None

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 210L · N1697X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

PRT COLUMBUS INTL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

150° / 5 kt

Temp

51° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000021060732

Total time

2,162 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

2,641

Age

55

Investigator remarks

LNDG GEAR WARNING HORN INOP.

Cause factors

64/A/10 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO EXTEND LANDING GEAR Cause — pilot/personnel action
70/J/CL J
AIRFRAME LANDING GEAR WARNING AND INDICATING COMPONENTS 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 2808. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2808.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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