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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW74FRG55

1974-01-25 CORPUS CHRSTI, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N11HV

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

COSTRUZIONI AERONAUTICHE TECNA P2008

Year of manufacture

2023

Engine

ROTAX 912ULS2 (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20230426

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A02A9D

Registrant of record

VU DUC HANH T

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N11HV Bell 47G3B1 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 47G3B1 · N11HV

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

DB

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000006529

Total time

3,908 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

7,990

Age

42

Investigator remarks

LND ON FARM ROAD.

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
64/B/49 B
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED SPEED AND ALTITUDE
88/K/AQ K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND 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 0054. Source file NTSB_1974_3_0054.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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