Atlas / NTSB / LAX78FUG11

NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX78FUG11

1978-01-08 LA VERNE, California, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6636X

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 210A

Year of manufacture

1961 · 17 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19990504

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A8C29E

Registrant of record

ALLEN LEIGH E

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6636X Cessna 210A Minor

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 210A · N6636X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

BRACKETT

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

090° / 6 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Total time

2,757 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

114

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LEO.LATER ENGINE RUN UP OK.

Investigator remarks

PILOT SWITCHED TANKS ON BASE LEG THEN ENGTNE FAI

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN

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 0095. Source file NTSB_1978_3_0095.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Beyond the agency record

Search this event elsewhere.

Pre-filled searches into the sources where news + community discussion of aviation events lives. External sources are reported, not agency. Treat them as signal that something happened, not as fact about what happened.

TallyAero Live Wire Aviation press

Entity-clustered aviation events in the press — last 24 hr + 30-day archive.

NTSB CAROL Agency ↗

Official agency record + docket.

NTSB Docket Agency ↗

Investigative docket: factual reports, photos, transcripts.

Aviation Safety Network Aviation press ↗

Long-running aviation incident database (Flight Safety Foundation).

Kathryn's Report Aviation press ↗

Community NTSB synthesis blog — often has photos and witness reports.

Aviation Herald Aviation press ↗

Gold-standard aviation incident blog.