Atlas / NTSB / CHI76FEA14

NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI76FEA14

1975-10-18 TENNYSON, Indiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1086B

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

ROBINSON HELICOPTER R44 II

Year of manufacture

2024

TCDS

H11NM · ROBINSON HELICOPTER CO

Engine

LYCOMING IO-540-AE1A5 (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20240108

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A02598

Registrant of record

STATE OF ALASKA

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1086B Mooney M20A 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

MOONEY M20A · N1086B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D2

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

225° / 15 kt

Temp

45° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001312

Total time

1,342 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

901

Age

30

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/19 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INATTENTIVE TO FUEL SUPPLY Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
83/B/A B
TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
88/3/AW 3
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 3

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 4073. Source file NTSB_1975_3_4073.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Beyond the agency record

Search this event elsewhere.

Pre-filled searches into the sources where news + community discussion of aviation events lives. External sources are reported, not agency. Treat them as signal that something happened, not as fact about what happened.

TallyAero Live Wire Aviation press

Entity-clustered aviation events in the press — last 24 hr + 30-day archive.

NTSB CAROL Agency ↗

Official agency record + docket.

NTSB Docket Agency ↗

Investigative docket: factual reports, photos, transcripts.

Aviation Safety Network Aviation press ↗

Long-running aviation incident database (Flight Safety Foundation).

Kathryn's Report Aviation press ↗

Community NTSB synthesis blog — often has photos and witness reports.

Aviation Herald Aviation press ↗

Gold-standard aviation incident blog.