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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW67A0117

1966-06-21 MORGAN CITY, Louisiana, United States Fatal 2 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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-2A · N73233

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Public use

Airport

OFFSHORE PLATFORM

Kind of flying

CS

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

025° / 8 kt

Temp

89° F

Aircraft history

Total time

3,006 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,057

Age

44

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ROTORCFT-CLUTCH SLIPPAGE FOR UNDETERMINED CAUSE.

Investigator remarks

RECOVERY DATE 6/24/66.SANK IN GULF OF MEXICO.

Cause factors

84/C/J C
MISCELLANEOUS WRITTEN CAUSE Cause
88/K/88 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER Joint factor

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 0583. Source file NTSB_1966_2_0583.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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