Event FTW77DQG30

1977-05-23 POST, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9439F Hughes 269B 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 269B · N9439F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DH

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000055-0194

Total time

1,699 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

609

Age

41

Cause factors

64/A/29 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
83/J/E J
TERRAIN HIDDEN OBSTRUCTIONS Joint cause

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 0802. Source file NTSB_1977_3_0802.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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