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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC71FFA11

1970-08-26 FONDA, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8561 Sikorsky S-58B 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

SIKORSKY S-58B · N8561

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

FULCO

Kind of flying

CS

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000058419

Total time

5,116 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,600

Age

25

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ING FM STATIC OVRLOAD.

Investigator remarks

T/R GR BOX SEPRTD AT FRONT FLANGE OF INTMED HOUS

Cause factors

78/C/BH C
ROTORCRAFT TAIL ROTOR GEAR BOX Cause
88/C/94 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Cause
88/L/49 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT

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 4618. Source file NTSB_1970_3_4618.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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