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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA78FKJ42

1978-06-02 CRESTVIEW, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6SP

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON CANADA 429

Year of manufacture

2019

TCDS

R00003RD · BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON CANADA LTD

Engine

P&W CANADA PW207D1/D2 (621 hp)

Seats / Engines

9 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20190425

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A7C42B

Registrant of record

STATE OF DELAWARE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6SP Swearingen SA26AT 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

SWEARINGEN SA26AT · N6SP

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Z

Weather

Z

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Business

Airport

BOB SIKES

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000110

Total time

4,184 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

10,922

Age

47

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

WHY IT COLLAPSED.

Investigator remarks

LANDING GEAR WAS TOO BADLY DAMAGED TO DETERMINE

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 1594. Source file NTSB_1978_3_1594.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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