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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ATL82FKG01

1981-10-07 SAVANNAH, Georgia, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N444HM Hughes 369D Serious

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 369D · N444HM

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

050° / 7 kt

Temp

72° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000670149D

Total time

2,190 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

950

Age

34

Investigator remarks

LNDD ON SLOPING TRRN AT DUSK.

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 2059. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2059.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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