Event MKC81FCG36

1981-05-26 BRANSON, Missouri, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N73265 Bell 47J-2 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 47J-2 · N73265

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

CY

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001869

Total time

4,382 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

10,667

Investigator remarks

SIGHTSEEING RIDE.#6 CON ROD FAILED.

Cause factors

74/C/AC C
POWERPLANT MASTER AND CONNECTING RODS Cause
88/C/36 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE Cause
64/B/25 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF

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 1089. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1089.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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