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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW80FA111

1980-09-03 PATTERSON, Louisiana, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N766AL Sikorsky S-76 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

SIKORSKY S-76 · N766AL

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B6

Operator type

E

Airport

SHIP SHOAL NO 28

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

060° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000760029

Total time

561 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,485

Age

43

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

BOOM AWAY FM STAIRWELL.HEL SKIDDED OFF PLATFORM.

Investigator remarks

AFTER LNDG ON STEEL HELI,PLT ATMTD TO REPSN TAIL

Cause factors

64/A/22 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS 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 2497. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2497.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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