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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX82FUJ20

1981-11-28 CAREFREE, Arizona, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3595M AEROSPATLE AS350D 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

AEROSPATLE AS350D · N3595M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Z

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

130° / 3 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001107

Total time

625 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

211

Age

53

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

143-01,MISSING FM ASSY.

Investigator remarks

FILTER ELEMENT GUIDE/OIL BYPASS VALVE,P/N 4-301-

Cause factors

68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
74/C/R3 C
POWERPLANT FILTER,OIL Cause
88/C/90 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MISSING 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 3267. Source file NTSB_1981_3_3267.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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