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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA74DLG04

1973-08-04 BENNETTSVILLE, South Carolina, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1MH

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON CANADA 407

Year of manufacture

2013

TCDS

H2SW · BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON CANADA LTD

Engine

ROLLS-ROYC 250-C47B (650 hp)

Seats / Engines

8 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20130401

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0011D

Registrant of record

FALCON AVIATION & JET SALES LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1MH Bell 47D-1 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 47D-1 · N1MH

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EH

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 5 kt

Temp

90° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000473

Total time

2,619 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,850

Age

30

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RING HARD LDG.

Investigator remarks

PLT LOST DIR CONTROL FOLLOWING TAIL ROTOR DMG DU

Cause factors

64/C/49 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED SPEED AND ALTITUDE Cause
88/B/AH B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PREVIOUS DAMAGE

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 2164. Source file NTSB_1973_3_2164.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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