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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW74FRD26

1974-04-11 PATTERSON, Louisiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N30AL

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

ZENITH CH-701

Year of manufacture

2007

Engine

ROTAX 912S (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20071011

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A31D04

Registrant of record

LINK ALDEN

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N30AL Bell 206B 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 206B · N30AL

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

E

Airport

WILLIAMS MEMORIAL

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

145° / 30 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001054

Total time

1,072 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

2,458

Age

30

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
88/C/19 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INATTENTIVE TO FUEL SUPPLY Cause
64/3/49 3
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED SPEED AND ALTITUDE Subordinate · 3
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 0684. Source file NTSB_1974_3_0684.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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