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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN77FTC15

1977-06-22 JACKSON, Wyoming, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N62345 AEROSPATIAL SA315B Serious

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

AEROSPATIAL SA315B · N62345

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

ED

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002407

Total time

1,255 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,944

Age

25

Investigator remarks

THROTTLE MICRO SWITCH IMPROPERLY ADJUSTED

Cause factors

74/C/I0 C
POWERPLANT THROTTLE-POWER LEVER ASSEMBLIES Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
88/C/47 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER ALIGNMENT/ADJUSTMENT Cause
68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 1371. Source file NTSB_1977_3_1371.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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