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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD78FA074

1978-06-29 DURHAM, North Carolina, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7537Q

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 310Q

Year of manufacture

1970 · 8 years old at event

Engine

AMA/EXPR UNKNOWN ENG

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19940916

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA288A

Registrant of record

REGISTRATION PENDING

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7537Q Cessna 310Q 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 310Q · N7537Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

E

Airport

RALEIGH DURHAM

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000310Q0037

Total time

2,385 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

7,218

Age

23

Cause factors

68/A/D0 A
PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) Cause — pilot/personnel action
75/A/AJ A
SYSTEMS RELAYS AND WIRING Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/29 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY SECURED 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 3248. Source file NTSB_1978_3_3248.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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