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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA81DYA25

1981-09-07 DRIGGS, Idaho, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N47309

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AERONCA 65-TAL

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560321

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A5CEB9

Registrant of record

DANCE CARLTON

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N47309 AEROSPATLE SA315B Serious

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

AEROSPATLE SA315B · N47309

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C2

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 10 kt

Temp

73° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002476

Total time

3,783 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

6,100

Age

30

Investigator remarks

EXT CARGO LINE CAUGHT ON REFUELING VEHICLE.

Cause factors

64/A/29 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING 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 2665. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2665.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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