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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW79DA087

1979-06-12 VENICE, Louisiana, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N16710 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 · N16710

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

E

Airport

PHI HELIPORT

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

360° / 15 kt

Temp

68° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002180

Total time

3,159 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,725

Age

48

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TORILY AFTER ACCIDENT.

Investigator remarks

SKIDS POPOUT FLOATS AND ENGINE OPERATED SATISFAC

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
88/K/88 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER 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 1809. Source file NTSB_1979_3_1809.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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