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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN78FTM25

1978-06-22 EVANSTON, Wyoming, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N218RM AEROSPATIAL SA315B Minor

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 · N218RM

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

CV

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002491

Total time

1,620 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

6,370

Age

39

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

USED IN PRIOR FLT BECAME ENTANGLED IN T/R.

Investigator remarks

AIRCRAFT INVOLVED IN SEISMOGRAPHIC SURVEY.CABLE

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
84/C/D C
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN OBJECT DAMAGE Cause
88/C/94 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Cause
83/K/D K
TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION 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 1551. Source file NTSB_1978_3_1551.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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