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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW79FRG20

1979-03-01 SAN MARCOS, Texas, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3603Y

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 210

Year of manufacture

1962 · 17 years old at event

TCDS

3A21 · TEXTRON AVIATION INC

Engine

CONT MOTOR I0-470 SERIES (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19621214

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A40F24

Registrant of record

CARTER DUANE LEE

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 210 · N3603Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

LOWMAN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / — kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000021058103

Total time

2,000 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

2,500

Age

69

Cause factors

  • 64/C/46 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
  • 80/L/BF L
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SOFT SHOULDERS
  • 88/K/DF K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTENTIONAL GROUND-WATER-LOOP-SWERVE 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 0930. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0930.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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