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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD78FA103

1978-09-01 GRISSETTOWN, North Carolina, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6092

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

FLYING MACHINE COMPANY INC SUPER KOALA

Year of manufacture

1987

Engine

BOMBARDIER ROTAX (ALL)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19870819

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A7EB4C

Registrant of record

THIESSEN RANDALL G

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6092 Bell 47G3 Fatal

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 47G3 · N6092

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EH

Operator type

G

Kind of flying

B4

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002829

Total time

6,479 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,760

Age

33

Investigator remarks

AERIAL SURVEILLANCE FLT.

Cause factors

64/A/15 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS 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 3736. Source file NTSB_1978_3_3736.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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