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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC74DNA37

1974-03-09 NORWOOD, Massachusetts, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3819N

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BELL UH-1H

Seats / Engines

15 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A462A1

Registrant of record

NORTHWEST HELICOPTERS LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N3819N Mooney M20F 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

MOONEY M20F · N3819N

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

NORWOOD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000680125-F

Total time

553 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,265

Age

58

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

DENCE OF ANY DEFECT OR MALFUNCTION.

Investigator remarks

GR RETRACT TEST ACCOMPLISHED 5 TIMES WITH NO EVI

Cause factors

64/A/12 A
PILOT IN COMMAND RETRACTED GEAR PREMATURELY 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 0588. Source file NTSB_1974_3_0588.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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