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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX79FUM18

1979-07-01 CARLSBAD, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3384S Cessna 210J None

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 210J · N3384S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

030° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000021059184

Total time

850 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

500

Age

25

Investigator remarks

FOREIGN MATTER IN VENT NOT IDENTIFIED.

Cause factors

74/C/CJ C
POWERPLANT VENTS,DRAINS,TANK CAPS Cause
84/C/G C
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN MATERIAL AFFECTING NORMAL OPERATIONS Cause
88/A/96 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause — pilot/personnel action
83/B/I B
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS

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 2040. Source file NTSB_1979_3_2040.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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