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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC72FFJ12

1971-06-08 ELMIRA, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1116S

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON CANADA 505

TCDS

R00008RD · BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON CANADA LTD

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A03325

Registrant of record

CITY OF STOCKTON

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1116S Schweizer SGS126 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

SCHWEIZER SGS126 · N1116S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

C

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

K

Airport

CHEMUNG COUNTY

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000506

Total time

34 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

428

Age

49

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RG FLD.

Investigator remarks

ENCOUNTERED DOWN DRAFTS,DELAYED IN SELECTING EME

Cause factors

64/A/27 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT DECISIONS OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/J/M J
WEATHER DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS 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 1956. Source file NTSB_1971_3_1956.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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