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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX81DJA01

1981-10-18 KAHULUI MAUI, Hawaii, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N119HA 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 · N119HA

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

020° / 10 kt

Temp

79° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000HA3019

Total time

2,015 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

12,200

Age

42

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

T MISSING.

Investigator remarks

NO. 6 BEARING CAP FORWARD CONNECTING ROD BOLT NU

Cause factors

68/A/D6 A
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause — pilot/personnel action
74/A/AC A
POWERPLANT MASTER AND CONNECTING RODS Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/95 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 2428. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2428.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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