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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW73FRD04

1972-08-29 VENICE, Louisiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3092G Bell 47J-2A 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 47J-2A · N3092G

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

030° / 10 kt

Temp

86° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000003309

Total time

6,319 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,838

Age

42

Investigator remarks

ENG COOLING FAN BELTS HAD BROKEN.

Cause factors

68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
74/C/E9 C
POWERPLANT OTHER Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
83/B/G B
TERRAIN ROUGH WATER
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 3 3134. Source file NTSB_1972_3_3134.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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