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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW81FA061

1981-03-31 CONROE, Texas, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N765AL Sikorsky S-76 Serious

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

SIKORSKY S-76 · N765AL

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

MONTGOMERY COUNTY

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

270° / 5 kt

Temp

72° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000760028

Total time

411 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

6,791

Age

33

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FAILURE USING N2 BEEP(GOVERNOR) ONLY.

Investigator remarks

CFI PLACED 1 ENG INTO FLT IDLE,MFGR REC SIM ENG

Cause factors

64/A/20 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC. Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/85 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SIMULATED CONDITIONS Joint 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 0873. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0873.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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