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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX68D0142

1967-09-23 DAGGETT, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7491E

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 210

Year of manufacture

1960 · 7 years old at event

TCDS

3A21 · TEXTRON AVIATION INC

Engine

CONT MOTOR I0-470 SERIES (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19600224

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA1679

Registrant of record

BENSCOTER RICHARD S

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 210 · N7491E

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

BARSTOW-DAGGETT

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

350° / 6 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

1,835 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

750

Age

37

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

SM STIFF.

Investigator remarks

NOSE WHEEL ROD ASSY FAILED NEAR JAM NUT. MECHANI

Cause factors

  • 70/A/CB A
    AIRFRAME NORMAL RETRACTION/EXTENSION ASSEMBLY Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 70/A/CC A
    AIRFRAME EMERGENCY/EXTENSION ASSEMBLY Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/80 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LACK OF LUBRICATION-SPECIFIC PART,NOT SYSTEM Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 68/A/D6 A
    PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION 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 2 1064. Source file NTSB_1967_2_1064.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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