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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC66A0013

1965-07-27 WEST KINGSTON, Rhode Island, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N210B

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BELL 47G-2

Year of manufacture

1975

Engine

LYCOMING VO-435 SERIES (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

3 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19870604

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1B99B

Registrant of record

L & L DELIVERY LTD

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N210B Bell 47D1 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 47D1 · N210B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DI

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN/LOWER SCATTERED

Wind

300° / 7 kt

Temp

73° F

Aircraft history

Total time

3,433 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

7,310

Age

38

Cause factors

64/A/53 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED ALTITUDE 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 0529. Source file NTSB_1965_2_0529.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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