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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW80FRG25

1980-02-07 BROWNSVILLE, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N12FB

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

FANTASY SKY PROMOTIONS FANTASY SEVEN BALLN

Year of manufacture

2000

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20040618

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A051D8

Registrant of record

BROOKSIDE BALLOONING LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N12FB Beech D50 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

BEECH D50 · N12FB

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

BROWNSVILLE INTL

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

140° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000DH-194

Total time

3,373 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

19,137

Age

61

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/19 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INATTENTIVE TO FUEL SUPPLY Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause

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 0552. Source file NTSB_1980_3_0552.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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