NTSB CAROL · Event
Event CHI79FEE72
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 · N612B
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Balloon
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
IMC
Phase of flight
EH
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
B0
Weather at impact
Sky
SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET
Aircraft history
Serial number
000000001122
Total time
174 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Flight instructor (CFI)
Total hours
311
Age
54
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
VOID STRIKING POWER LINE.
Investigator remarks
ACFT FLOWN NOSE HIGH ATTITUDE AFT TKOE.TURN TO A
Cause factors
- 64/A/40 A PILOT IN COMMAND INITIATED FLIGHT IN ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 82/J/A J WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause
- 82/J/B J WEATHER RAIN Joint cause
- 82/J/C J WEATHER FOG Joint 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
3 4174.
Source file
NTSB_1978_3_4174.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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