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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80DUJ43

1980-03-03 SOMERTON, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2127 Bell 47G5 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 47G5 · N2127

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DG

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

DUSTER PAD

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000007826

Total time

6,209 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,686

Age

27

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ROTOR SHAFT,FAILED.NIGHT AG OPS.

Investigator remarks

BROCCOLI.WOODRUFF KEY,SPLINED DRIVE COUPLING TO

Cause factors

75/A/AC A
SYSTEMS GENERATORS/ALTERNATORS Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/95 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/33 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ELECTRICAL FAILURE Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 1841. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1841.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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