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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX77FA060

1977-08-01 ENCINO, California, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4TV

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

EUROCOPTER AS 350 B2

Year of manufacture

1996

TCDS

H9EU · AIRBUS HELICOPTERS

Engine

TURBOMECA ARRIEL 1SER (681 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19960913

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4A9AC

Registrant of record

HELICOPTERS INTERNATIONAL LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4TV Bell 206B 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 206B · N4TV

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Y

Airport

VAN NUYS

Kind of flying

B9

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

090° / 5 kt

Temp

90° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000433

Total time

2,892 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

7,193

Age

47

Investigator remarks

KNBC NEWS TELECOPTER

Cause factors

64/C/27 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT DECISIONS OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
64/B/23 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS

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 3073. Source file NTSB_1977_3_3073.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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