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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC79DAG78

1979-08-13 WASILLA, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2183U Brantly B-2B 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

BRANTLY B-2B · N2183U

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

MINE STRUP

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

090° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000345

Total time

765 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

990

Age

41

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LL,BUT HEL CONT TO DSND.WND GUSTING 20 KT.

Investigator remarks

PLT STATED-APPLIED FULL PWR DRG LNDG APRH TO KNO

Cause factors

64/A/27 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT DECISIONS OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/J/M J
WEATHER DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS Joint cause
83/J/F J
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 3 2337. Source file NTSB_1979_3_2337.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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