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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW79DRG12

1979-01-23 AUSTIN, Texas, 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 310B · N6819T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B0

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

MUELLER

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000039119

Total time

3,596 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,784

Age

47

Cause factors

  • 70/A/CM A
    AIRFRAME GEAR LOCKING MECHANISM Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/95 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 68/J/D4 J
    PERSONNEL INADEQUATE INSPECTION OF AIRCRAFT (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) 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 0124. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0124.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.