NTSB CAROL · Event
Event FTW80FRG30
Registry · N30ET
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
CESSNA T310Q
Year of manufacture
1971 · 9 years old at event
Engine
CONT MOTOR TSIO-520 SER (300 hp)
Seats / Engines
6 seats · 2 engines
Last airworthiness date
20020412
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S A31D6F
Registrant of record
ZALDIVAR CARLOS
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
RAND KR-2 · N30ET
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
DB
Weather at impact
Sky
CLEAR
Wind
090° / 10 kt
Temp
75° F
Aircraft history
Serial number
000000003693
Total time
2 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
DA (DA)
Total hours
2,354
Age
31
Investigator remarks
AILERONS NOT BALANCED BY OWNER/BUILDERS.
Cause factors
- 68/A/J6 A PERSONNEL OTHER Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 70/A/D2 A AIRFRAME AILERON SURFACES,ATTACHMENTS Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 88/A/BT A MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FLUTTER Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 88/A/CH A MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OUT OF BALANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 88/J/49 J MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT 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 0571.
Source file
NTSB_1980_3_0571.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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