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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX81DXQ14

1981-03-08 ELKO, Nevada, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7510K

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 180J

Year of manufacture

1976 · 5 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19760128

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA2022

Registrant of record

FREIENMUTH KARL S

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7510K Cessna 180J 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 180J · N7510K

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

ELKO-HARRIS

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018052656

Total time

807 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,114

Age

49

Cause factors

64/A/22 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 0907. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0907.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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