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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD79FID37

1979-09-19 CHAMPLAIN, Virginia, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N421FH Hiller FH1100 Serious

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 FH1100 · N421FH

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000111

Total time

2,969 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,500

Age

38

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

D TO GLIDE OVER IT.

Investigator remarks

DURING AUTOROTATION PLT SAW POWERLINE & ATTEMPTE

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/23 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MISCALCULATED FUEL CONSUMPTION Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
84/B/7 B
MISCELLANEOUS EVASIVE MANEUVER TO AVOID COLLISION

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 3443. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3443.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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