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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA79FYP42

1979-09-21 SPOKANE, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5JU

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BELL 206B

Year of manufacture

1981

TCDS

H2SW · BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON CANADA LTD

Engine

ALLISON 250-C20 SER (420 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20050217

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A63619

Registrant of record

MOOR HALLEY R JR

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5JU Cessna P337 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

CESSNA P337 · N5JU

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D2

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

FELTS

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

330° / 6 kt

Temp

60° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000P337-0329

Total time

83 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

4,087

Age

36

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ORT OF RWY.

Investigator remarks

BOOST PUMPS LEFT ON.UN RESTART ENGS.HIT 300FT SH

Cause factors

64/C/21 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause
88/C/34 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ENGINE LOADED UP Cause
83/K/Y K
TERRAIN OTHER 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 2606. Source file NTSB_1979_3_2606.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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