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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW80FPM13

1980-07-17 TULSA, Oklahoma, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N17HC Bell 206B None

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 · N17HC

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 5 kt

Temp

109° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002771

Total time

301 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,191

Age

42

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TOR,FOUND IN 3RD STAGE AREA OF COMP WHEEL.

Investigator remarks

PLASTIC,SIMILAR TO MATL FOUND IN PARTICLE SEPARA

Cause factors

74/C/KC C
POWERPLANT FOREIGN OBJECT DAMAGE Cause
88/L/AQ L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint factor

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 2318. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2318.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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