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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI65A0101

1965-06-05 TROY, Michigan, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8887F

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

HUGHES 269A

Year of manufacture

1963 · 2 years old at event

TCDS

4H12 · SCHWEIZER RSG LLC

Engine

LYCOMING HO-360 (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19631101

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC3EE0

Registrant of record

NIEC STEVEN M

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8887F 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 · N8887F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EH

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

JIM ROBBINS

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

190° / 9 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

251 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,150

Age

30

Cause factors

66/C/18 C
DUAL STUDENT Cause
64/C/30 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT 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 0204. Source file NTSB_1965_2_0204.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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