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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA71FKD01

1970-07-03 UNION CITY, Tennessee, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6962R

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SIKORSKY S-64E

Year of manufacture

1968 · 2 years old at event

Engine

P & W JFTD12A-4A (4500 hp)

Seats / Engines

3 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20080313

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A943AE

Registrant of record

HELICOPTER EXPRESS LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6962R Sikorsky S-64E 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

SIKORSKY S-64E · N6962R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D4

Operator type

K

Kind of flying

CK

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

240° / 8 kt

Temp

85° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000064058

Total time

261 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

3,010

Age

33

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ONTO EXTERNAL LOAD JUST PLACED ON ROOF OF BLDG.

Investigator remarks

ENGS INGESTED POLYETHYLENE PLASTIC.ACFT SETTLED

Cause factors

74/C/KC C
POWERPLANT FOREIGN OBJECT DAMAGE Cause
74/C/KD C
POWERPLANT COMPRESSOR STALLS 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 1257. Source file NTSB_1970_3_1257.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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