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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW67A0107

1967-05-10 HALLSVILLE, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7815S 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 · N7815S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 20 kt

Temp

82° F

Aircraft history

Total time

3 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,300

Age

46

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

UEL SYSTEM.REGISTERED EMPTY WHEN ENGINE QUIT.

Investigator remarks

HAD 2 FUEL TANKS.FUEL GAGE WAS FOR SINGLE TANK F

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
88/C/23 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MISCALCULATED FUEL CONSUMPTION Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
64/B/22 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS
88/K/AQ K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND Joint factor
68/J/D0 J
PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) Joint cause
74/J/J2 J
POWERPLANT FUEL QUANTITY GAUGE Joint 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 2 0211. Source file NTSB_1967_2_0211.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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