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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN77FTE18

1977-01-24 CIMMARON, Colorado, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1362X

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BELL 47G-3B-1

Year of manufacture

1966 · 11 years old at event

TCDS

2H3 · SCOTT'S-BELL 47 INC

Engine

LYCOMING TVO-435-GIA (280 hp)

Seats / Engines

3 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19770106

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0942F

Registrant of record

MORTEN JOHN E

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1362X Bell 47G3B1 Minor

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 · N1362X

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

DK

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000006573

Total time

3,216 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

8,545

Age

45

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

N. NOSE PITCHED UP, BECAME UNCONTROLLABLE.

Investigator remarks

PLT FELT A LURCH THEN A HIGH FREQUENCY VIBIRATIO

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED 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 0646. Source file NTSB_1977_3_0646.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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