NTSB CAROL · Event
Event MKC67D0533
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 206 · N2679X
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dusk
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
Business
Kind of flying
B0
Weather at impact
Sky
CLEAR
Aircraft history
Total time
240 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
175
Age
23
Investigator remarks
ACFT STRUCK MIGRATORY FOWL.
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
3 4384.
Source file
NTSB_1966_3_4384.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
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- NASA NTRS 2019 · Preprint (Draft being sent to journal)
Terrain Portrayal for Head-Down Displays Flight Test
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- NASA NTRS 2010 · Abstract
Emerging Standards for Aerodrome Mapping Databases and Datalink Technologies to Enable Reductions in Runway Incursions/Excursions
The integration of onboard databases with data linked aeronautical information services (AIS) is a task that RTCA and EUROCAE are pursuing.
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