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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX81FA101

1981-06-26 ELKO, Nevada, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N732AS

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BOMBARDIER INC BD-100-1A10

Year of manufacture

2023

TCDS

T00005NY · BOMBARDIER INC

Engine

HONEYWELL AS907-2-1A

Seats / Engines

8 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20230620

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A9D28A

Registrant of record

CURRAN AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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 T210 · N732AS

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000021061368

Total time

2,600 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

12,285

Age

51

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

S AROSE 0400AM.FLEW 6HRS DAY BEFORE.

Investigator remarks

HIT MTN 10400FT MSL APRX 40FT BLO RIDGE LINE.PLT

Cause factors

  • 84/A/I A
    MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 83/J/Y J
    TERRAIN OTHER Joint cause

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 1291. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1291.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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