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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX81FVG21

1981-02-28 CHICO, California, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N12512 Bell 47D1 Minor

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 47D1 · N12512

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — level (EA)

Operator type

Business

Airport

RANCHAERO

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

130° / 12 kt

Temp

60° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000006238

Total time

2,169 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

12,245

Age

59

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
64/B/25 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF

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 1126. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1126.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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