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Event IAD77FKW27

1977-08-15 JAMESTOWN, Tennessee, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2880B Bell 47G2A 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

BELL 47G2A · N2880B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

EH

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

JAMESTOWN

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001966

Total time

9,944 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

6,450

Age

43

Investigator remarks

PILOT FORGOT TO DISENGAGE CONTROL FRICTION LOCKS

Cause factors

64/A/29 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING 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 2708. Source file NTSB_1977_3_2708.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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