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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW80FRG18

1980-01-04 EAGLE PASS, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N4748R Bell 47G4A 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 47G4A · N4748R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EH

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

CY

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

65° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000007649

Total time

11,575 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,640

Age

24

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

O SERVO,P/N 103650-3,MISSING.

Investigator remarks

CYCLIC LOCKED IN AFT POSITION.SERVO PIVOT BOLT T

Cause factors

68/A/D6 A
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause — pilot/personnel action
78/A/C0 A
ROTORCRAFT CYCLIC PITCH CONTROL SYSTEM Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/90 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MISSING 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 0055. Source file NTSB_1980_3_0055.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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