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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW78FQG09

1977-12-02 AMARILLO, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N999MD Cessna T210L 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 T210L · N999MD

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

AMARILLO INTL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

240° / 7 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000210-59984

Total time

563 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,000

Age

53

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

R SE 76-24 NCW

Investigator remarks

UP LOCK SOLENOID FAILED TO RELEASE.CESSNA SER LT

Cause factors

68/A/D0 A
PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) Cause — pilot/personnel action
70/A/CM A
AIRFRAME GEAR LOCKING MECHANISM Cause — pilot/personnel action
75/A/AY A
SYSTEMS OTHER 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 3768. Source file NTSB_1977_3_3768.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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