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CHI78FEV25

1978-04-07 · CLINTON, Illinois, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
BELL 47-G · N3574
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Balloon
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
DK
Operator type
Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)
Kind of flying
CA

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR
Wind
235° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number
0000000K7033
Total time
1,372 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
683
Age
21

Investigator remarks

APPLYING CONDITIONER TO SOIL.

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).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 2289. Source file NTSB_1978_3_2289.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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