NTSB CAROL · Event
Event OAK71FJA16
Registry · N4452
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
BELL 206B
Year of manufacture
1973
TCDS
H2SW · BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON CANADA LTD
Engine
ALLISON 250-C20 SER (420 hp)
Seats / Engines
5 seats · 1 engine
Last airworthiness date
20010209
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S A55FCE
Registrant of record
BRAVO AVIATION LLC
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
GRUMMAN SCAN30 · N4452
Damage
None
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Night
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
A1
Operator type
Personal/private
Airport
MAJURO
Kind of flying
DE
Weather at impact
Sky
UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED
Aircraft history
Serial number
000000000034
Total time
5,630 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
14,500
Age
42
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
FROM DOOR AT REAR OF HANGAR,PROP WINDMILLING.
Investigator remarks
TAXIED INTO HANGAR,ENGS SHUT DOWN.PERSON EMERGED
Cause factors
- 68/A/K2 A PERSONNEL SPECTATOR Cause — pilot/personnel action
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 2149.
Source file
NTSB_1971_3_2149.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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