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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW77FRD45

1977-08-26 VENICE, Louisiana, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N90151

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

ARBC INC DBA LINDSTRAND 90A

Year of manufacture

2019

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20190822

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC7604

Registrant of record

RE/MAX MARKETING FUND LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N90151 Bell 206B 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 206B · N90151

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C2

Operator type

Business

Airport

MAIN PASS 299C

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

060° / 20 kt

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001612

Total time

2,591 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

4,020

Investigator remarks

SKID TIED DOWN.

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 2192. Source file NTSB_1977_3_2192.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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