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FTW81FRA46

1981-07-21 · GANADO, Texas, United States · Serious · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
HILLER ACFT UH-12E · N118HA
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Balloon
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
DD
Operator type
Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)
Airport
WHITES
Kind of flying
CB

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR
Wind
180° / 8 kt
Temp
90° F

Aircraft history

Serial number
000000HA3018
Total time
2,250 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
10,455
Age
37

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

STOP DSCNT.UNKN RSN.

Investigator remarks

LOST COLLECTIVE CTL,HEL BGN LOSING ALT,PLT UN TO

Cause factors

  • 78/A/C1 A
    ROTORCRAFT COLLECTIVE PITCH CONTROL SYSTEM Cause — pilot/personnel action

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 2625. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2625.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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