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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI65A0074

1965-02-14 FRANKLIN, Indiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

BRANTLY B2 · N5933X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D4

Operator type

D

Airport

FRANKLIN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

40° F

Aircraft history

Total time

412 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

90

Age

44

Cause factors

  • 64/A/08 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/J/23 J
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS 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 2 0061. Source file NTSB_1965_2_0061.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.