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FTW80FA111

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

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

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).

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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