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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC76AA019

1975-08-05 BIRCHES, Alaska, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N62356 AEROSPATLE SA341G 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 SA341G · N62356

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

G

Kind of flying

CT

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001169

Total time

266 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,500

Age

28

Investigator remarks

BLM SURVEY FLT. 266HRS SINCE NEW.

Cause factors

78/C/BH C
ROTORCRAFT TAIL ROTOR GEAR BOX Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
68/C/J2 C
PERSONNEL POOR/INADEQUATE DESIGN Cause
64/K/79 K
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Joint factor
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 4183. Source file NTSB_1975_3_4183.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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