NTSB CAROL · Event
Event MIA66A0007
Registry · N6796D
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
BRANTLY B-2
Year of manufacture
1960 · 5 years old at event
TCDS
2H2 · BRANTLY INTERNATIONAL INC
Engine
LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)
Seats / Engines
2 seats · 1 engine
Last airworthiness date
19590909
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S A90055
Registrant of record
MAT-SU AIR SERVICE 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
BRANTLY B2 · N6796D
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Balloon
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D4
Operator type
D
Airport
BESSEMER
Kind of flying
B0
Weather at impact
Sky
CLEAR
Aircraft history
Total time
905 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
693
Age
36
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
R WASH SUCKED PARACHUTE INTO ROTOR
Investigator remarks
PARACHUTE LEFT ON AIRPORT OPERATIONAL AREA -ROTO
Cause factors
- 64/C/33 C PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause
- 68/C/H0 C PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE-AIRPORT FACILITIES Cause
- 84/J/D J MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN OBJECT DAMAGE Joint 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
2 0497.
Source file
NTSB_1965_2_0497.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
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- arXiv 2020 · arXiv preprint
Continuation Method with the Trusty Time-stepping Scheme for Linearly Constrained Optimization with Noisy Data
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- NASA NTRS 2019 · Abstract
Certification of a Modified Research Public Aircraft
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- NASA NTRS 2011 · Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Predicted airframe noise levels for certification flights
A correction is presented for a previously published inconsistency in predicted airframe noise values, which were based on approach velocities lower than those required for FAA certification.
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