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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA66A0016

1965-07-26 PANAMA CITY, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3628G Bell 47G 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 · N3628G

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

225° / 9 kt

Temp

81° F

Aircraft history

Total time

2,049 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

6,250

Age

45

Investigator remarks

WATER IN CARBURETOR.CONTROL FRICTION TOO TIGHT.

Cause factors

88/A/87 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS WATER IN FUEL Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/B/29 B
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING
64/K/23 K
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS Joint factor
78/K/C9 K
ROTORCRAFT OTHER Joint factor

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 0536. Source file NTSB_1965_2_0536.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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