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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC73AAO16

1972-08-30 JUNEAU, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5047F HILLER ACFT FH1100 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

HILLER ACFT FH1100 · N5047F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D4

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

120° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000194

Total time

973 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,398

Age

29

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OFF SPINNING.AUTOROTATED AMONG FELLED LOGS

Investigator remarks

BALANCED ON LOG,DISCHARGED PX,TR HIT BRUSH.TOOK

Cause factors

64/C/35 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause
83/C/Y C
TERRAIN OTHER 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 3 3594. Source file NTSB_1972_3_3594.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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