NTSB CAROL · Event
Event LAX79DUJ93
Registry · N19939
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
VAN'S AIRCRAFT RV-10
Year of manufacture
2007
Engine
LYCOMING IO-540-D4A5 (260 hp)
Seats / Engines
4 seats · 1 engine
Last airworthiness date
20070701
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S A18C7D
Registrant of record
DREAM SEEKER INC
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 177 · N19939
Damage
None
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dusk
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
A1
Operator type
D
Airport
BULLHEAD CITY
Kind of flying
B0
Weather at impact
Sky
CLEAR
Aircraft history
Serial number
000017702614
Total time
960 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
500
Age
42
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
H ENG RUNNING.PAX WALKED INTO PROP.
Investigator remarks
PLT ALLOWED PAX TO WALK AROUND ACFT AT NIGHT WIT
Cause factors
- 64/A/20 A PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC. Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 68/A/K4 A PERSONNEL PASSENGER 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 1897.
Source file
NTSB_1979_3_1897.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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