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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI78FEE53

1978-07-08 HUNTLEY, Illinois, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2100U Brantly B2B 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

BRANTLY B2B · N2100U

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EY

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

LANDINGS AIRSTRIP

Kind of flying

DB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

360° / 6 kt

Temp

76° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000146

Total time

240 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

7,500

Age

55

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 4279. Source file NTSB_1978_3_4279.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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