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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI80FEK17

1980-06-27 COLUMBUS, Ohio, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N51786 Enstrom F-28C 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

ENSTROM F-28C · N51786

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

Business

Airport

BOLTON

Kind of flying

DB

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

240° / 5 kt

Temp

78° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000450

Total time

488 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,500

Age

32

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

SIM AUTOROTATION.

Investigator remarks

PARTIAL PWR LOSS OCCURRED AS PLT WAS TERMINATING

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS 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 3336. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3336.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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