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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DIA70F0019

1969-06-30 NEWSOMS, Virginia, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N138B

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

DASSAULT AVIATION FALCON 7X

Year of manufacture

2009

Engine

P&W CANADA PW307A

Seats / Engines

11 seats · 3 engines

Last airworthiness date

20100823

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A09902

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N138B Bell 47G 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 47G · N138B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DE

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

3,358 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

958

Age

25

Investigator remarks

SPRAYING WATERMELONS.

Cause factors

64/A/54 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE 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 1922. Source file NTSB_1969_3_1922.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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