NTSB CAROL · Event
Event MIA79DLT05
Registry · N11NE
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
BELL UH-1B
Year of manufacture
2001
Engine
AMA/EXPR UNKNOWN ENG
Seats / Engines
6 seats · 1 engine
Last airworthiness date
20010130
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S A02B0B
Registrant of record
NORTHERN X TREME HELICOPTERS INC
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
ENTWICKLUNG C · N11NE
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
C
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
Takeoff — initial climb (C1)
Operator type
D
Airport
DESOTO COUNTY
Kind of flying
B0
Weather at impact
Sky
CLEAR
Aircraft history
Serial number
000000000824
Total time
530 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Flight instructor (CFI)
Total hours
142
Age
44
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
ON TKOF CAUSING PREMATURE RELEASE OVER TREES.
Investigator remarks
PLT FAILED TO MAINTAIN ALIGNMENT WITH TOW PLANE
Cause factors
- 64/A/23 A PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS 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 0739.
Source file
NTSB_1979_3_0739.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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