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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW74FRD18

1973-11-08 BELLE CHASSE, Louisiana, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2994W Bell 47G-5A Minor

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-5A · N2994W

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B8

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

NAS BELLE CHASSE

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000025075

Total time

538 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

21,296

Age

46

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

Y INADEQT MESH-345 HRS.360 TURNS,CLOSED THROTTLE.

Investigator remarks

EXCESSV WEAR FND ON T/R DRIVE GR AND QUILL ASMBL

Cause factors

68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
78/C/BG C
ROTORCRAFT TAIL ROTOR DRIVE SHAFT ASSEMBLY Cause
88/C/BQ C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS EXCESSIVE-WEAR/PLAY 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 3 3197. Source file NTSB_1973_3_3197.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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