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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK70D0160

1969-10-07 BISHOP, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3096G Bell 47G3B1 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

BELL 47G3B1 · N3096G

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

DY

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

090° / 4 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000003376

Total time

1,130 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,545

Age

41

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ELL INTO SMALL STREAM WENT OVER WATERFALL.

Investigator remarks

PARK PATROL. DENSITY ALT APRXLY 12500 FT. ACFT F

Cause factors

74/C/AG C
POWERPLANT BLOWER,IMPELLER ASSEMBLY Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
82/C/W C
WEATHER HIGH DENSITY ALTITUDE Cause
83/B/I B
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS
88/L/88 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER

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 2792. Source file NTSB_1969_3_2792.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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