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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC77DA012

1977-02-02 PARSONS, Kansas, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N224AM

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON CANADA 407

Year of manufacture

2011

TCDS

H2SW · BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON CANADA LTD

Engine

ROLLS-ROYC 250-C47B (650 hp)

Seats / Engines

8 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20110606

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1EFE9

Registrant of record

AIR METHODS LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N224AM Swearingen SA-226 Serious

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 SA-226 · N224AM

Damage

None

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

A1

Airport

TRI CITY PARSONS

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000TC-227

Total time

148 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

8,725

Age

32

Investigator remarks

PAX DEPLANING FELL,BROKE HIP.

Cause factors

68/A/K4 A
PERSONNEL PASSENGER 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 1 0008. Source file NTSB_1977_1_0008.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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