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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW69A0064

1969-03-25 PATTERSON, Louisiana, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2893B Bell 47J Fatal

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 47J · N2893B

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

Public use

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

330° / 9 kt

Temp

49° F

Aircraft history

Total time

7,024 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

7,617

Age

32

Investigator remarks

TAIL BOOM ASSY SEVERED BY M/R.

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED 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 0771. Source file NTSB_1969_3_0771.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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