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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC81DAG10

1980-11-01 GOOSE BAY, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8775F Hughes 269A 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

HUGHES 269A · N8775F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Temp

23° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000099

Total time

1,604 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

780

Age

35

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NK FEEDING MAIN,4GAL/HR.ENG USED 12GAL/HR.MARSH.

Investigator remarks

TKOF W MAIN FUEL TNK NRLY EMPTY.UNAPPROVED AUX T

Cause factors

68/C/J6 C
PERSONNEL OTHER Cause
88/C/AD C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS UNAPPROVED MODIFICATION Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
83/K/A K
TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND 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 3387. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3387.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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