NTSB CAROL · Event
Event NYC76FHA55
Registry · N2201U
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
BEECH B36TC
Year of manufacture
1997
Engine
CONT MOTOR TSIO-520 SER (300 hp)
Seats / Engines
6 seats · 1 engine
Last airworthiness date
19970730
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S A1E38F
Registrant of record
CHRISARA INVESTMENTS LLC
Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).
Aircraft involved
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
BRANTLY 305 · N2201U
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Balloon
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Night
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D6
Operator type
Business
Kind of flying
B3
Weather at impact
Sky
BROKEN
Aircraft history
Serial number
000000001001
Total time
642 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Flight instructor (CFI)
Total hours
1,147
Age
29
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
MISC-LOSS OF ROTOR RPM FOR UNDETERMINED REASON
Cause factors
- 84/A/J A MISCELLANEOUS WRITTEN CAUSE Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 64/A/48 A PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE 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 4108.
Source file
NTSB_1976_3_4108.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
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- arXiv 2022 · arXiv preprint
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The thin runback water films driven by the gas flow, the pressure gradient and the gravity on the iced aircraft surface are investigated in this paper.
- arXiv 2021 · arXiv preprint
Data-driven turbulence modeling in separated flows considering physical mechanism analysis
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