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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI79DET14

1979-02-05 KENDALLVILLE, Indiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2285U Brantly B2B 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

BRANTLY B2B · N2285U

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B8

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Airport

KENDALLVILLE MUNI

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 5 kt

Temp

15° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000456

Total time

1,961 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

101

Age

20

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ALT AND STARTED SPINNING.

Investigator remarks

PLT STATED LOOKED AT WATCH WHILE HOVERING,GAINED

Cause factors

64/A/08 A
PILOT IN COMMAND DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT 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 0338. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0338.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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