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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX77FUJ19

1977-01-10 PARKER, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8060E Bell 47D1 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 47D1 · N8060E

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DN

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

68° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000097

Total time

796 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

10,000

Age

41

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

D FOREIGN MATERIAL FOUND.

Investigator remarks

ACFT FUELED FROM GRND SUPPORT TRUCK. UNIDENTIFIE

Cause factors

68/C/D2 C
PERSONNEL IMPROPERLY SERVICED AIRCRAFT (GROUND CREW) Cause
88/C/64 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL CONTAMINATION-EXCLUSIVE OF WATER IN FUEL Cause
88/C/87 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS WATER IN FUEL Cause

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 0180. Source file NTSB_1977_3_0180.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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