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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI81DEX04

1980-10-25 KOKOMO, Indiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N98HH

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CIRRUS DESIGN SR22

Year of manufacture

2006

TCDS

A00009CH · CIRRUS DESIGN CORP

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO-550-N (310 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20061206

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ADA982

Registrant of record

LITTLE WING LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N98HH Bell 206B 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

BELL 206B · N98HH

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C2

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

290° / 18 kt

Temp

41° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002172

Total time

1,209 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

5,767

Age

48

Investigator remarks

CONGESTED AREA.

Cause factors

64/A/54 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/33 A
PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT 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 3073. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3073.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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