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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN79FTM06

1978-12-21 MAGNA, Utah, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N10067

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AEROSPATIALE SA315B

Year of manufacture

1972 · 6 years old at event

TCDS

H1IN · AIRBUS HELICOPTERS

Engine

TURBOMECA ARTOUSTEIIIB (858 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19790513

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A007FE

Registrant of record

SAFER MEDICAL OF MT

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N10067 AEROSPATIAL SA315B 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

AEROSPATIAL SA315B · N10067

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002276

Total time

3,128 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

5,070

Age

34

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause

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 4182. Source file NTSB_1978_3_4182.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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