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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX79FUJ13

1978-11-10 SPRINGERVILLE, Arizona, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8483E

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BELL 47G-3B

Year of manufacture

1961 · 17 years old at event

TCDS

2H3 · SCOTT'S-BELL 47 INC

Engine

LYCOMING VO-435 SERIES (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

3 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19840719

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ABA057

Registrant of record

OWENS JEFFREY H

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8483E Bell 47G3B 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 47G3B · N8483E

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D2

Operator type

D

Airport

SPRINGERVILLE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

220° / 18 kt

Temp

55° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002650

Total time

2,719 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

5,418

Age

47

Cause factors

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

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 4459. Source file NTSB_1978_3_4459.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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