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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK65X0950

1964-12-07 VENICE, Louisiana, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N73229

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

EAGLE BALLOONS CORP C-7

Year of manufacture

1985

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19850702

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A9D539

Registrant of record

MUIR ALLAN K

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N73229 Bell 47J2 Fatal

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 47J2 · N73229

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

2,414 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

4,415

Age

25

Cause factors

78/C/AB C
ROTORCRAFT TAIL ROTOR BLADES Cause
88/C/36 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE Cause
88/J/49 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT Joint cause
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 2 0990. Source file NTSB_1964_2_0990.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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