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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX69F0351

1969-04-28 HAWTHORNE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N441D

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 310

Year of manufacture

1955 · 14 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19560406

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A54E9F

Registrant of record

LEWIS THOMAS F

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 · N441D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

HAWTHORNE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000035058

Total time

2,200 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

644

Age

50

Cause factors

  • 84/A/I A
    MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/1/13 1
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADVERTENTLY RETRACTED GEAR Subordinate · 1

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 2861. Source file NTSB_1969_3_2861.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.