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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC70A0002

1969-07-03 MCGRATH, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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

HILLER ACFT FH1100 · N748FH

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

A3

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

CC

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000075

Total time

768 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

5,950

Age

42

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ON HIS RACK CARGO ACFT ROLLED OVER.DEPLANED PX HIT

Investigator remarks

LANDED ON MUSKEG HUMPS.WHILE PLTS ATTENTION WAS

Cause factors

  • 64/C/35 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause
  • 64/C/08 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT Cause
  • 83/L/F L
    TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN

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 2514. Source file NTSB_1969_3_2514.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.