NTSB CAROL · Event
Event CHI73ACO47
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
ENSTROM F-28A · N4925
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Balloon
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
IMC
Phase of flight
D6
Operator type
Personal/private
Airport
BLUE GRASS FIELD
Kind of flying
A2
Weather at impact
Sky
BROKEN
Aircraft history
Serial number
000000000051
Total time
308 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
GA (GA)
Total hours
4,712
Age
32
Cause factors
- 67/C/18 C CHECK PILOT Cause
- 67/C/30 C CHECK PILOT Cause
- 66/C/23 C DUAL STUDENT Cause
- 66/C/42 C DUAL STUDENT Cause
- 88/L/05 L MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CREW COORDINATION-POOR
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 3408.
Source file
NTSB_1972_3_3408.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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