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FTW65A0071

1965-01-12 · VENICE, Louisiana, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
BELL 47J2 · N513T
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Balloon
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
EE
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
B2

Weather at impact

Sky
OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Total time
505 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Airline transport
Total hours
15,020
Age
51

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ANK IN CANAL.

Investigator remarks

TAIL ROTOR STRUCK WATER DURING LANDING ON SOIL B

Cause factors

  • 64/A/35 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 83/J/A J
    TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND Joint cause
  • 88/J/88 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER Joint cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 2 0012. Source file NTSB_1965_2_0012.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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