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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA78DYK11

1978-03-06 MYRTLE CREEK, Oregon, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N73984 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 · N73984

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DD

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

090° / 5 kt

Temp

55° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002893

Total time

5,158 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,323

Age

45

Investigator remarks

1/2 GAL FUEL IN BOTH TANKS.GAGE OPERATIVE.

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
88/C/19 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INATTENTIVE TO FUEL SUPPLY Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint factor

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 0548. Source file NTSB_1978_3_0548.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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