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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX72FUJ88

1972-03-24 GILA BEND, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1333X

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BELL 47G-3B-1

Year of manufacture

1966 · 6 years old at event

TCDS

2H3 · SCOTT'S-BELL 47 INC

Engine

LYCOMING TVO-435-GIA (280 hp)

Seats / Engines

3 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19711208

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0892D

Registrant of record

HENDRICKSON FLYING SERVICE INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1333X 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 · N1333X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B4

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000006554

Total time

2,822 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,554

Age

24

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

CH,RRM DECAYED RESULTING IN HRD LDG.

Investigator remarks

ENG QUIT ON FNL APCH,EXTENDED GLIDE TO AVOID DIT

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
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
84/B/7 B
MISCELLANEOUS EVASIVE MANEUVER TO AVOID COLLISION
64/K/18 K
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN ADEQUATE ROTOR R.P.M. Joint factor
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint factor

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 0128. Source file NTSB_1972_3_0128.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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