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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX78FUG34

1978-06-17 NORCO, California, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5SH

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AIRBUS HELICOPTERS EC 130 T2

TCDS

H9EU · AIRBUS HELICOPTERS

Engine

TURBOMECA ARRIEL 2D (802 hp)

Seats / Engines

8 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20151214

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A636D6

Registrant of record

INDIANA HELICOPTERS LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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

MUSTANG II · N5SH

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

D

Airport

CHINO

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000484

Total time

216 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

677

Age

35

Cause factors

  • 74/C/KA C
    POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS 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 1270. Source file NTSB_1978_3_1270.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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