NTSB CAROL · Event
Event OAK73DJY03
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 G44 · N4452
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
EE
Operator type
E
Kind of flying
CI
Weather at impact
Sky
SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET
Wind
022° / 5 kt
Temp
79° F
Aircraft history
Serial number
000000000034
Total time
549 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Flight instructor (CFI)
Total hours
1,698
Age
31
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
N.ACFT SANK,NOT RCVRD.
Investigator remarks
HULL BOW SKIN SEPRTD ON WATER LDNG FOR UNDTMD RS
Cause factors
- 70/A/BY A AIRFRAME OTHER Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 88/A/95 A MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 88/J/88 J MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER Joint 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 3964.
Source file
NTSB_1972_3_3964.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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