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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX77FUM34

1977-08-06 CALIPATRIA, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N62413 HILLER ACFT UH-12E 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-12E · N62413

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DE

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

135° / 3 kt

Temp

90° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001372

Total time

5,974 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

12,220

Age

40

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OO LOW ALT IN COTTON FIELD.

Investigator remarks

NR 1 CYL CON ROD FAILED.EMERG LDG ATTEMPTED AT T

Cause factors

74/C/AC C
POWERPLANT MASTER AND CONNECTING RODS Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
83/B/D B
TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION

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 1845. Source file NTSB_1977_3_1845.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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