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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI80DEE57

1980-09-30 ROCK ISLAND, Illinois, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1532B BLN WORKS FF-7 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

BLN WORKS FF-7 · N1532B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

D

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C8

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000010176

Total time

89 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

151

Age

43

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

SNL ASSUME DUTIES.BLN WAS RLSD BFR FULLY INFLATED.

Investigator remarks

WHILE INFLATING BLN,GND CREW LET INEXPERIENCED P

Cause factors

68/A/K3 A
PERSONNEL GROUND CREWMAN Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/05 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CREW COORDINATION-POOR 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 2755. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2755.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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