Event DEN80DTC24

1980-07-12 PINEDALE, Wyoming, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N223RM 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 · N223RM

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EH

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002482

Total time

3,152 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

10,395

Age

49

Cause factors

64/A/49 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED SPEED AND ALTITUDE 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 1926. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1926.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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