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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW79DRD08

1978-11-14 HARVEY, Louisiana, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N101AM

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA T182T

Year of manufacture

2005

TCDS

3A13 · TEXTRON AVIATION INC

Engine

LYCOMING TIO-540-AK1A (235 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20170811

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A00877

Registrant of record

LEHS KENT

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N101AM Cessna A185F 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

CESSNA A185F · N101AM

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Business

Airport

HARVEY CANAL BASE

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

100° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018502390

Total time

1,687 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

8,198

Age

47

Investigator remarks

FLOAT EQPD.HIT BARGE.

Cause factors

64/A/15 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 3678. Source file NTSB_1978_3_3678.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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