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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA81FKJ03

1980-11-08 PANAMA CITY, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9115R

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BELL 47D1

Year of manufacture

1948 · 32 years old at event

TCDS

H-1 · SCOTT'S-BELL 47 INC

Engine

FRANKLIN 6A4200 SERIES (200 hp)

Seats / Engines

3 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19750414

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC9D79

Registrant of record

OLSON ROBERT L

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9115R Bell 47D1 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 47D1 · N9115R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

CE

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000093

Total time

3,180 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,067

Age

52

Investigator remarks

T/R DRIVE COUPLING GREASE FITTING MISSING.

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
78/C/AG C
ROTORCRAFT UNIVERSAL JOINTS,COUPLINGS Cause
88/C/90 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MISSING Cause
88/C/80 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LACK OF LUBRICATION-SPECIFIC PART,NOT SYSTEM 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 3648. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3648.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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