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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC72AK045

1972-01-26 WALKER, Minnesota, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2502M Bell 206A 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 206A · N2502M

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

A3

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

CE

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 10 kt

Temp

-19° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000480

Total time

1,533 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

2,990

Age

29

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ING HOODED PARKA.GRND SAFETY PRECAUTIONS IMPROPER.

Investigator remarks

SNOW MOBILE RACE SPECTATOR RAN INTO T/R.WAS WEAR

Cause factors

68/A/K2 A
PERSONNEL SPECTATOR Cause — pilot/personnel action
68/J/K9 J
PERSONNEL OTHER Joint 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 2118. Source file NTSB_1972_3_2118.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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