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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW79FRA27

1979-05-06 HOUSTON, Texas, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2HJ

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH F33A

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A18E09

Registrant of record

LITTLE EAGLE VALLEY LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2HJ Bell 206B Serious

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 · N2HJ

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B9

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001153

Total time

1,986 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

ZA (ZA)

Total hours

9,500

Age

35

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

THIS HELO APRX 35FT IN THE AIR.

Investigator remarks

PLT DEPLANED TO MOVE ANOTHER HELO,THEN OBSERVED

Cause factors

64/A/74 A
PILOT IN COMMAND LEFT AIRCRAFT UNATTENDED, ENGINE RUNNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
84/A/8 A
MISCELLANEOUS UNQUALIFIED PERSON OPERATED AIRCRAFT 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 2560. Source file NTSB_1979_3_2560.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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