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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA74AM033

1973-10-16 JAYUYA, Puerto Rico, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1166U Sikorsky S-62A Minor

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-62A · N1166U

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000620011

Total time

3,266 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

7,695

Age

42

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AIN.

Investigator remarks

LOUD NOISE,PWR LOSS,AUTOROTATION TO SLOPING TERR

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN

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 3983. Source file NTSB_1973_3_3983.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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