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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC65D0138

1965-03-30 FINLEYVILLE, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N62F

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BELL 206B

Year of manufacture

1995

TCDS

H2SW · BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON CANADA LTD

Engine

ALLISON 250-C20 SER (420 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20000405

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A81461

Registrant of record

HELICOPTERS INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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

FS BERT BF4 · N62F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

FINLEYVILLE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 10 kt

Temp

60° F

Aircraft history

Total time

65 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

5,100

Age

49

Cause factors

  • 64/A/35 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 80/J/BL J
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SOFT RUNWAY 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 0702. Source file NTSB_1965_3_0702.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.