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Event CHI75FEP65

1975-07-25 BURLINGTON, Wisconsin, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N402FW

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BELL 206-L4

Year of manufacture

2006

TCDS

H2SW · BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON CANADA LTD

Engine

ROLLS-ROYC 250-C30P (650 hp)

Seats / Engines

7 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20081119

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4B4A1

Registrant of record

FLORIDA FISH & WILDLIFE CONSERVATION COMMISSION

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N402FW Beech E18S 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

BEECH E18S · N402FW

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

E

Airport

BURLINGTON MUNI

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Temp

54° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000BA-136

Total time

7,030 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,562

Age

35

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ANK, AVBL L TANK, DID NOT CROSSFEED.

Investigator remarks

L ENG IMPELLER BEARING FAILED. FUEL DEPLETED R T

Cause factors

74/C/AG C
POWERPLANT BLOWER,IMPELLER ASSEMBLY Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
88/C/48 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FAILURE OF TWO OR MORE ENGINES Cause
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 1702. Source file NTSB_1975_3_1702.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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