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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC80FHD04

1979-10-23 PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N119SF

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

DJI AGRAS T40

0

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A04F38

Registrant of record

SHINKLE FARMS INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N119SF AEROSPATLE SA341G Minor

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

AEROSPATLE SA341G · N119SF

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

D

Airport

PHILADELPHIA INTL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

160° / 16 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001226

Total time

1,296 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,480

Age

43

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause

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 3863. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3863.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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