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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN72FTE16

1971-08-24 AURORA, Colorado, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8764F Hughes 269A 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

HUGHES 269A · N8764F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B0

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

SKY RANCH

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000062-0089

Total time

870 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

360

Age

46

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ROLLED OVER ON R SIDE.

Investigator remarks

SKIDS DUG INTO GND WHILE AIR TAXIING TO TKOF.HEL

Cause factors

66/C/18 C
DUAL STUDENT Cause
64/C/30 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT Cause
82/L/W L
WEATHER HIGH DENSITY ALTITUDE

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 3124. Source file NTSB_1971_3_3124.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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