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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW82DA007

1981-10-12 HOUMA, Louisiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5774X AEROSPATLE AS350D 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

AEROSPATLE AS350D · N5774X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

200° / 3 kt

Temp

85° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001391

Total time

179 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

5,271

Age

23

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

T,FAILED.

Investigator remarks

AFT BEARING,PN 4-301-078-01,OF NG SPUR GEAR SHAF

Cause factors

74/C/PM C
POWERPLANT BEARING,SHAFT Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 2520. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2520.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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