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FTW79FRD15

1979-03-05 · LA PLACE, Louisiana, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
SIKORSKY S-58 · N46755
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Balloon
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
C2
Operator type
Personal/private
Kind of flying
CY

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR
Wind
225° / 8 kt
Temp
68° F

Aircraft history

Serial number
00000147998
Total time
3,572 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
6,475
Age
36

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FESTED SWAMP.

Investigator remarks

ACFT NOT RECOVERED,IN TREES 30FT AGL IN SNAKE IN

Cause factors

  • 74/C/KA C
    POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
  • 83/B/D B
    TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 0731. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0731.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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