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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW80IA010

1979-11-10 GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N103CA

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA T182T

Year of manufacture

2024

TCDS

3A13 · TEXTRON AVIATION INC

Engine

LYCOMING TIO-540-AK1A (235 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20240520

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0100C

Registrant of record

CIVIL AIR PATROL

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N103CA Douglas DC-3C 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

DOUGLAS DC-3C · N103CA

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000009967

Total time

14,130 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

7,930

Age

29

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

GEESE.

Investigator remarks

IDENTITY OF BIRDS UNKNOWN BUT SUSPECTED AS BEING

Cause factors

84/A/0 A
MISCELLANEOUS BIRD COLLISION 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 5 0026. Source file NTSB_1979_5_0026.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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