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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX79FXQ37

1979-09-16 RENO, Nevada, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7715C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

NORTH AMERICAN F-51D

Year of manufacture

1944 · 35 years old at event

Engine

PACKARD LIBERTY (400 hp)

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19990405

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA6FC8

Registrant of record

HINTON STEVEN J TRUSTEE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7715C N AMERICAN P-51D Serious

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

N AMERICAN P-51D · N7715C

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

Y

Airport

RENO STEAD

Kind of flying

DF

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

320° / 5 kt

Temp

89° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00004484961A

Total time

1,656 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

3,000

Age

27

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NAL LAP.

Investigator remarks

PYLON RACING AT RENO AIR RACES.ENG FAILED DRG FI

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint factor

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 2803. Source file NTSB_1979_3_2803.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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