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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX69D0200

1968-11-23 ADELANTO, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6952T

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 310D

Year of manufacture

1960 · 8 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR I0-470 SERIES (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19630209

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A93FF9

Registrant of record

HOW DO I LAND LLC

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 310 · N6952T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

EL MIRAGE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

1,091 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,000

Age

36

Cause factors

  • 64/A/10 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO EXTEND LANDING GEAR 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 4405. Source file NTSB_1968_3_4405.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.