NTSB CAROL · Event
Event ANC80DA080
Registry · N50SC
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
RONALD OSGOOD/ROBERT MEHARRY GLASAIR II S
Seats / Engines
2 seats · 1 engine
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S A6392A
Registrant of record
MEHARRY ROBERT
Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).
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
HUGHES 369 · N50SC
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Balloon
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D5
Operator type
E
Kind of flying
CI
Weather at impact
Sky
SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET
Aircraft history
Serial number
00001140669S
Total time
2,254 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
DA (DA)
Total hours
4,678
Age
42
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
PRESS FILTER BYPASS SEAT.REPLACING FILTER RCMNDD.
Investigator remarks
METAL CONTAMINATION OF PWR TURB GOVERNOR FRM HI
Cause factors
- 74/C/SE C POWERPLANT FUEL CONTROL Cause
- 84/C/G C MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN MATERIAL AFFECTING NORMAL OPERATIONS Cause
- 88/C/41 C MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RPM-UNCONTROLLABLE-OVERSPEED Cause
- 68/L/D6 L PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION
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 2357.
Source file
NTSB_1980_3_2357.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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- Semantic Scholar 2020 · Article (Pilot and Feasibility Studies)
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- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2020 · Conference paper
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