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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA70AM054

1970-01-05 PERRY, Florida, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N109BC

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

EUROCOPTER DEUTSCHLAND GMBH EC135T1

Year of manufacture

1999

TCDS

H88EU · AIRBUS HELICOPTERS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH (AHD)

Engine

TURBOMECA ARRIUS 2B1 (577 hp)

Seats / Engines

12 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20000314

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0263F

Registrant of record

BROWARD COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N109BC Piper PA-18 Fatal

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

PIPER PA-18 · N109BC

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

115° / 9 kt

Temp

52° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000018-8366

Total time

767 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

6,361

Age

44

Investigator remarks

FLT PHASE UNK.

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
83/B/I B
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS

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 0004. Source file NTSB_1970_3_0004.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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