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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX81DUG05

1980-11-18 RIALTO, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5310V HILLER ACFT UH-12B 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-12B · N5310V

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EH

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

RIALTO MUNI

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

360° / 35 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000563

Total time

6,200 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,212

Age

34

Investigator remarks

PRACTICING AUTOROTATIONS W PWR RECOVERY.

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 3360. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3360.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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