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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW78DRD01

1977-10-01 KENNER, Louisiana, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3075G Bell 47G2A1 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 47G2A1 · N3075G

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D4

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

CY

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

200° / 11 kt

Temp

91° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002881

Total time

9,900 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,015

Age

27

Investigator remarks

COLLECTING WATER SAMPLES LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN

Cause factors

64/A/21 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/22 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/88 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER Joint 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 2868. Source file NTSB_1977_3_2868.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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