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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX81DVA11

1980-10-22 FRESNO, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6457B

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA T210M

Year of manufacture

1978 · 2 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR TSIO-520 SER (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19780719

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A87B1D

Registrant of record

JCB HOLDINGS LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6457B Cessna T210M 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 T210M · N6457B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

E

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

SIERRA SKY PARK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Temp

50° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Total time

566 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

940

Age

40

Investigator remarks

UNLIGHTED RWY

Cause factors

64/C/33 C
PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause
64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/B/82 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND
80/K/BY K
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER Joint factor
88/K/DH K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RAN OFF END OF RUNWAY 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 3172. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3172.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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