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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN68A0019

1967-10-05 ALAMOGORDO, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1337X

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

DJI MAVIC PRO

0

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A089B9

Registrant of record

ROMEO TYLER A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1337X Bell 47G3B1 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 47G3B1 · N1337X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

ALAMOGORDO MUN

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Temp

85° F

Aircraft history

Total time

703 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

8,583

Age

45

Cause factors

88/C/85 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SIMULATED CONDITIONS Cause
66/B/25 B
DUAL STUDENT
64/B/30 B
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT

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 0658. Source file NTSB_1967_2_0658.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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