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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80DVW08

1979-12-31 BOULDER CITY, Nevada, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6769X Cessna 310F 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 310F · N6769X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

Z

Airport

BOULDER CITY MUNI

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

360° / 7 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000310-0069

Total time

1,300 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

2,500

Age

50

Investigator remarks

COLLIDED W PARKED GLIDER-SUB DMG.

Cause factors

64/C/22 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
64/B/06 B
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED ACTION IN ABORTING TAKEOFF

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 3852. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3852.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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