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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW73AF053

1973-03-20 PATTERSON, Louisiana, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N36AL

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

VAN'S AIRCRAFT RV-8

Year of manufacture

2000

Engine

LYCOMING I0360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20000502

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A409FE

Registrant of record

CUOZZO ALFRED F

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N36AL Bell 206B 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 206B · N36AL

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

Z

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

240° / 15 kt

Temp

61° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000826

Total time

756 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,975

Age

26

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

I E OF PROPOSED FLT PATH. INJURIES ASSUMED.

Investigator remarks

FLOATING WRECKAGE OF ACFT FOUND 35MI FROM DEP,8M

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 0837. Source file NTSB_1973_3_0837.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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