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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA74DKG74

1974-04-10 BLUE RIDGE, Georgia, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N25802 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 · N25802

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

E

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D4

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001154

Total time

4,144 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

EA (EA)

Total hours

2,500

Age

35

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

CED.ATMTD LDG IN CLEARING.T/R HIT TREES.

Investigator remarks

NIGHT ANTI-FROST HOVERING.SVR VIBRATION EXPERIEN

Cause factors

64/A/54 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/CV J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS VIBRATION,EXCESSIVE Joint cause
83/J/I J
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 1328. Source file NTSB_1974_3_1328.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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