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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA72DKJ04

1971-07-12 HAZEL GREEN, Alabama, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N11HN

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

ROBINSON HELICOPTER R44 II

Year of manufacture

2016

TCDS

H11NM · ROBINSON HELICOPTER CO

Engine

LYCOMING IO-540-AE1A5 (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20161214

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A02A96

Registrant of record

VSTOL AVIATION LLC

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

JEANNIES TEENIE · N11HN

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

D

Airport

HAZEL GREEN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Total time

2 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

165

Age

51

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

EEPER THAN PREVIOUS FLIGHT.

Investigator remarks

SECOND FLIGHT IN AIRCRAFT-PLT SAID HE CLIMBED ST

Cause factors

  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/J/31 J
    PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT 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 3 0763. Source file NTSB_1971_3_0763.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.