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MKC70A0009

1969-09-04 · KEYSTONE, South Dakota, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N28208 has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (BELLANCA 17-30A), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
BELL 47G 2 · N28208
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Balloon
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
Personal/private
Kind of flying
CY

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number
000000001488
Total time
4,579 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Flight instructor (CFI)
Total hours
1,884
Age
36

Investigator remarks

SIGHT-SEEING FLTS.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/29 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
  • 88/C/63 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
  • 83/B/I B
    TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 2592. Source file NTSB_1969_3_2592.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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