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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC74AA018

1973-08-07 WASILLA, Alaska, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1472W

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

COSTRUZIONI AERONAUTICHE TECNA P2010

Year of manufacture

2022

TCDS

A00066CE · COSTRUZIONI AERONAUTICHE TECNAM S P A

Engine

LYCOMING IO-360-M1A (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20220708

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0BF64

Registrant of record

FLORIDA FLIGHT TRAINING CENTER

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

BELL 206A · N1472W

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

G

Kind of flying

DQ

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Temp

54° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000419

Total time

2,199 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

7,002

Age

44

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NTAL ACFT.

Investigator remarks

HIT PARTIALLY CONCEALED WIRES. FAA PLT IN FAA RE

Cause factors

  • 64/A/15 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 83/J/I J
    TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint cause

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 1849. Source file NTSB_1973_3_1849.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.