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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD78DKM23

1978-09-08 FRANKLIN, North Carolina, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N15TR

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MITSUBISHI MU-2B-40

Year of manufacture

1981

Engine

AIRESEARCH TPE331 SERIES (904 hp)

Seats / Engines

10 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19810416

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0C98F

Registrant of record

NORTHWEST AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N15TR 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 · N15TR

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EH

Operator type

D

Airport

MACON COUNTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000045-0180

Total time

8,420 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

5,000

Age

34

Cause factors

64/A/48 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE 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 2796. Source file NTSB_1978_3_2796.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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