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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX79DVG67

1979-07-30 SACRAMENTO, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6NT

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA P210N

Year of manufacture

1978 · 1 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR TSIO-520 SER (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19780928

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A7C3CB

Registrant of record

NEVADA DEFENSE GROUP 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 P210 · N6NT

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

SACRAMENTO EX

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

250° / 8 kt

Temp

100° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Total time

421 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,455

Age

21

Investigator remarks

MAIN GR DOOR ACTUATOR VALVE FAILED.

Cause factors

  • 70/A/CY A
    AIRFRAME OTHER Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 75/A/BY A
    SYSTEMS OTHER Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/95 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE 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 1998. Source file NTSB_1979_3_1998.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.