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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC77FFA01

1976-10-06 UTICA, New York, United States Minor 2 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N73550

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BELL H13G

Year of manufacture

1953 · 23 years old at event

Engine

AMA/EXPR UNKNOWN ENG

Seats / Engines

3 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19760120

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A9E0BE

Registrant of record

WHEATLEY LESTER E JR

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

BELL 47G-2 · N73550

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Day

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Airport

RIVERSIDE

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000MC463

Total time

396 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

1,885

Age

38

Cause factors

64/C/49 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED SPEED AND ALTITUDE Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 3562. Source file NTSB_1976_3_3562.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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