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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC80FA063

1980-07-09 TALKEETNA, Alaska, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N373EH Bell 206B Minor

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

BELL 206B · N373EH

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 15 kt

Temp

45° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001314

Total time

1,129 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,806

Age

35

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

BY TREES.R SKID HOOKED ON ROOT.

Investigator remarks

ROUGHLY CLEARED HELIPAD BORDERED ON THREE SIDES

Cause factors

64/A/35 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
83/J/F J
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint cause
83/J/I J
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 1955. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1955.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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