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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW67A0023

1966-08-11 WICHITA FALLS, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1365X Bell 47G-5 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-5 · N1365X

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B8

Operator type

K

Airport

KICKAPOO

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Temp

85° F

Aircraft history

Total time

3 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

5,125

Age

32

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OTRUDED 12 FT OUT FROM FRONT OF HANGAR AT ROOFLINE

Investigator remarks

ONE M/R BLADE STRUCK A 5 INCH STEEL PIPE THAT PR

Cause factors

64/C/15 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS Cause
88/B/AX B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS GROUND RESONANCE

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 0715. Source file NTSB_1966_2_0715.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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