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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX71FUJ51

1970-11-20 PAGE, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N612

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BELL 206B-III

Year of manufacture

1991

TCDS

H2SW · BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON CANADA LTD

Engine

ALLISON 250-C20 SER (420 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20000823

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A7F62B

Registrant of record

JJS AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N612 Bell 47G3B1 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 47G3B1 · N612

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D5

Operator type

G

Airport

PAGE

Kind of flying

DC

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

41° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002914

Total time

2,968 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,618

Age

39

Investigator remarks

ENG QUIT DURING AUTOROTATION DEMONSTRATION.

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
64/B/25 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF
64/B/23 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS
88/L/85 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SIMULATED CONDITIONS

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 4537. Source file NTSB_1970_3_4537.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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