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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC75FHD37

1975-03-05 GLENMORE, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9559 Enstrom F-28 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

ENSTROM F-28 · N9559

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000064

Total time

691 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

3,600

Age

27

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OIL LEAK.

Investigator remarks

ONLY SMALL AMT OF OIL FND IN ENG.NO SIGN OF ENG

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
88/C/81 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OIL EXHAUSTION-ENGINE LUBRICATION SYSTEM Cause
64/B/49 B
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED SPEED AND ALTITUDE

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 0756. Source file NTSB_1975_3_0756.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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