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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX79FUQ17

1979-02-18 LANCASTER, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N555AS

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BELL 407

Year of manufacture

2004

TCDS

H2SW · BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON CANADA LTD

Engine

HONEYWELL HTS-900-2 (925 hp)

Seats / Engines

7 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20180906

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A7120F

Registrant of record

AERO LEASING INC

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

CESSNA 210 · N555AS

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

E

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

271° / 3 kt

Temp

53° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000057146

Total time

2,207 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

20,900

Age

59

Cause factors

  • 74/C/KA C
    POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
  • 88/B/DG B
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTENTIONAL WHEELS-UP
  • 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 0376. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0376.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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