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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW81DPG36

1981-05-30 HUGHES, Arkansas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N11KQ

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

EUROCOPTER EC 130 T2

Year of manufacture

2013

TCDS

H9EU · AIRBUS HELICOPTERS

Engine

TURBOMECA ARRIEL 2D (802 hp)

Seats / Engines

8 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20140116

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A02ACA

Registrant of record

AIR METHODS LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N11KQ Grumman G-164 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

GRUMMAN G-164 · N11KQ

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

225° / 7 kt

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000106

Total time

2,121 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,007

Age

33

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
83/K/A K
TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND 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 0969. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0969.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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