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Event FTW77DA041

1977-03-15 LAREDO, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8417E Bell 47G2A1 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 47G2A1 · N8417E

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C2

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

INTERNATIONAL

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002604

Total time

6,399 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

14,488

Age

50

Investigator remarks

TIEDOWN CHAIN TO RIGHT SKID NOT REMOVED.

Cause factors

64/A/29 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING 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 0861. Source file NTSB_1977_3_0861.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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