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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN76DTC16

1975-09-20 JACKSON, Wyoming, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6390 AEROSPATLE SA315B 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

AEROSPATLE SA315B · N6390

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

30° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002309

Total time

1,054 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,535

Age

27

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

EL PUMP CAPACITY.PLT HAD TO CLR HI WIRES.

Investigator remarks

MICRO IGNITER PUMP FAILED,CAUSED REDUCTION IN FU

Cause factors

74/C/SB C
POWERPLANT PUMP,FUEL Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
84/B/7 B
MISCELLANEOUS EVASIVE MANEUVER TO AVOID COLLISION
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint factor

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 3080. Source file NTSB_1975_3_3080.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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