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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC67A0035

1966-10-08 CLEAR, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5096V Sikorsky S-55B 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

SIKORSKY S-55B · N5096V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D4

Operator type

Business

Airport

CLEAR SKY

Kind of flying

CK

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 10 kt

Temp

40° F

Aircraft history

Total time

3,149 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,800

Age

32

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

WER POLE. GROUND SIGNALMAN IMPROPERLY POSITIONED.

Investigator remarks

TAIL ROTOR STRUCK CABLE DURING POSITIONING OF PO

Cause factors

68/A/K1 A
PERSONNEL GROUND SIGNALMAN Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/29 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING 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 2 0999. Source file NTSB_1966_2_0999.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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