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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW81FPD31

1981-07-15 BURLESON, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N57CR HILLER ACFT UH-12C 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

HILLER ACFT UH-12C · N57CR

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

170° / 5 kt

Temp

90° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000056-909

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,602

Age

26

Investigator remarks

TURNED TO AVOID WIRES.OFF ARPT OPN.

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint factor
84/K/7 K
MISCELLANEOUS EVASIVE MANEUVER TO AVOID COLLISION 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 3380. Source file NTSB_1981_3_3380.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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