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NYC71FFA11

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

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

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).

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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