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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA73FYC17

1973-02-02 PORTLAND, Oregon, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N112B

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

VAN'S AIRCRAFT RV7A

Year of manufacture

2005

Engine

SUPERIOR IO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20050928

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A033BA

Registrant of record

LEONARD DONALD T

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N112B Bell 47D1 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 47D1 · N112B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EH

Operator type

Y

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000032

Total time

7,588 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,309

Age

64

Investigator remarks

TAIL ROTOR HIT BLDG DRG LDG ON TRAILER.

Cause factors

64/A/54 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE 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 0271. Source file NTSB_1973_3_0271.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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