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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC65A0125

1965-04-17 HARMAN, West Virginia, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6590D Bell Tomcat 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 TOMCAT · N6590D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Day

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EY

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

605 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,360

Age

37

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OW CAUSED LATERAL UNCONTROLABILITY.

Investigator remarks

HOPPER VALVE RELEASE CABLE JAMMED,UNEVEN DUST FL

Cause factors

76/A/CA A
INSTRUMENTS/EQUIPMENT AND ACCESSORIES SPRAY,DUSTING EQUIPMENT 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 2 0132. Source file NTSB_1965_2_0132.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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