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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC79FA056

1979-07-14 PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1443W Bell 206B Fatal

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 206B · N1443W

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D4

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

CE

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

090° / 6 kt

Temp

79° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000372

Total time

3,503 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

6,967

Age

35

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LED.LUBRICANT LOST FOR UNKN RSN.

Investigator remarks

MAIN DRIVE SHAFT COUPLING(PN 206 040-108-005)FAI

Cause factors

78/C/BA C
ROTORCRAFT ENGINE DRIVE SHAFT Cause
88/C/80 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LACK OF LUBRICATION-SPECIFIC PART,NOT SYSTEM Cause
88/C/CI C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERHEATED Cause
88/K/88 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER 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 3424. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3424.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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