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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX81FUQ25

1981-07-05 AGUA DULCE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9763Z Bell 47G-2 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 47G-2 · N9763Z

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B6

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000029

Total time

4,042 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

84

Age

28

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ON.PLT ATMPTD REPOSITION ACFT.NO ENG MALFN FD.

Investigator remarks

PLT RPTD PWR LOSS AT 300FT,SUCCESSFUL AUTOROTATI

Cause factors

64/C/01 C
PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION W/KNOWN DEFICIENCIES IN EQUIPMENT Cause
74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
64/B/48 B
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE

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 2419. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2419.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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