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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC74FHM26

1974-04-20 HEWITT, New Jersey, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4FL

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE GVI

Year of manufacture

2012

Engine

ROLLS DEUT BR700-725A112

Seats / Engines

22 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20200121

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4A877

Registrant of record

FREDEX LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4FL Bell 206B 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

BELL 206B · N4FL

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B9

Operator type

Business

Airport

NAIROBI

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

290° / 10 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001229

Total time

38 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,920

Age

55

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LIPAD TO HANGAR.

Investigator remarks

HELIPAD 3-5DEG SLOPE. PURPOSE TO MOVE ACFT FM HE

Cause factors

64/A/23 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause — pilot/personnel action
80/J/BY J
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER 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 1155. Source file NTSB_1974_3_1155.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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