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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN76FQA46

1976-05-26 LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6851R

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA T210G

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19670225

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A91855

Registrant of record

6851R LLC

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 T210 · N6851R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

LOS ALAMOS

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

360° / 12 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Total time

2,500 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

3,103

Age

46

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NG TO 30K.

Investigator remarks

PILOT STATE THAT HE FORGOT TO EXTEND GEAR. GUSTI

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
  • 88/J/95 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Joint cause
  • 88/J/03 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CHECKLIST-FAILED TO USE Joint cause
  • 82/J/H J
    WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS 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 1476. Source file NTSB_1976_3_1476.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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