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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC74DAG14

1973-08-07 COLD BAY, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6238N Bell 206A 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

BELL 206A · N6238N

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C2

Operator type

G

Kind of flying

DQ

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

270° / 10 kt

Temp

50° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000118

Total time

3,892 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,596

Investigator remarks

ACFT ROLLED OVER AFT TKOF.

Cause factors

64/A/23 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS 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 3207. Source file NTSB_1973_3_3207.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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