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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC66D0612

1966-04-28 WASHINGTON, New Jersey, United States None 2 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4141D

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CAMERON BALLOONS US N-145

Year of manufacture

1991

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19971117

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4E57B

Registrant of record

ABOVE IT ALL BALLOON CO 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

HELIO 391B · N4141D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

KRATOUIL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

225° / 15 kt

Temp

50° F

Aircraft history

Total time

924 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

26,000

Age

52

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

N DROPPED UNNOTICED ON RUNWAY.

Investigator remarks

TAILWHEEL STRUCK PIECE OF FIREWOOD WHICH HAD BEE

Cause factors

80/A/BJ A
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES HIDDEN HAZARD 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 3 0876. Source file NTSB_1966_3_0876.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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