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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW80FA045

1980-02-21 LEEVILLE, Louisiana, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N442Y Sikorsky S-62A Fatal

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

SIKORSKY S-62A · N442Y

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

A3

Operator type

E

Airport

PUMPING PLATFORM

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

190° / 20 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000062033

Total time

8,084 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

9,994

Age

45

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LOST PWR,HIT EDGE HELI.ENG EQUIP W OVRSPD CUT-OUT.

Investigator remarks

PLT INCRD COLLECTIVE TO CTL OVRSPD,BCM AIRBORNE,

Cause factors

74/C/KY C
POWERPLANT OTHER Cause
88/C/41 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RPM-UNCONTROLLABLE-OVERSPEED Cause
64/B/20 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC.
88/B/07 B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER EMERGENCY PROCEDURES

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 1617. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1617.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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