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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD78FA063

1978-05-16 MEMPHIS, Tennessee, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1155W

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

KURT LEPPING PA-18-150

Engine

LYCOMING O-360 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20020808

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A041E2

Registrant of record

STATE OF ALASKA

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1155W Bell 47J-2A 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

BELL 47J-2A · N1155W

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

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000003126

Total time

2,923 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,210

Age

31

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/23 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MISCALCULATED FUEL CONSUMPTION Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
74/L/J2 L
POWERPLANT FUEL QUANTITY GAUGE
88/L/BR L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ERRATIC

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 1084. Source file NTSB_1978_3_1084.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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