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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC75FNC30

1975-04-23 BAR HARBOR, Maine, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4141D

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CAMERON BALLOONS US N-145

Year of manufacture

1991

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19971117

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4E57B

Registrant of record

ABOVE IT ALL BALLOON CO INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4141D HELIO ACFT H-391B 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

HELIO ACFT H-391B · N4141D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000092

Total time

1,668 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

10,403

Age

49

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

1/2 EACH.

Investigator remarks

PLT ESTD FUEL IN TANKS BFR TKOF AS BTWN 1/4 AND

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
64/B/54 B
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE
88/L/26 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS STOLEN OR UNAUTHORIZED USE OF AIRCRAFT
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint factor

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 0874. Source file NTSB_1975_3_0874.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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