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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX66A0106

1966-06-28 TORRANCE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6775D Bell 47J2 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 47J2 · N6775D

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

E

Airport

TORRANCE

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

300° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

2,143 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

8,000

Age

47

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

S FROM FENCE.

Investigator remarks

PILOT ATTEMPTED TOUCHDOWN WITH TAILROTOR 4 INCHE

Cause factors

64/A/33 A
PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/34 A
PILOT IN COMMAND OPERATED CARELESSLY 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 2 0567. Source file NTSB_1966_2_0567.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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