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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC76AA041

1975-09-27 NOME, 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 UH-12A · N10172

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000233

Total time

2,419 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

5,500

Age

36

Investigator remarks

LND IN SOFT TUNDRA. FUEL DIP STICK INACCURATE.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/29 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
  • 88/C/63 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
  • 64/B/49 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED SPEED AND ALTITUDE
  • 88/L/23 L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MISCALCULATED FUEL CONSUMPTION
  • 83/K/A K
    TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND Joint factor
  • 88/L/BR L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ERRATIC

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 3789. Source file NTSB_1975_3_3789.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.