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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC77DHO21

1977-07-16 TOMS RIVER, New Jersey, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N605HF

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

GRUMMAN OV-1D

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 2 engines

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A7DA87

Registrant of record

ARMY AVIATION HERITAGE FOUNDATION

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N605HF Enstrom F28A 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 F28A · N605HF

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

MILLER AIRPARK

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

230° / 6 kt

Temp

86° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000114

Total time

776 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

2,480

Age

26

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AIR RESTRICTION.

Investigator remarks

FLEX AIR INTAKE DUCT,90 DEG BEND CAUSED PARTIAL

Cause factors

74/C/CL C
POWERPLANT RAM AIR ASSEMBLY Cause
88/C/CF C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OBSTRUCTED Cause
83/B/I B
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS

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 3312. Source file NTSB_1977_3_3312.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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