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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX81FUG06

1980-12-25 RIALTO, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N94731 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 · N94731

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

RIALTO MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 15 kt

Temp

78° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000387

Total time

3,210 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

343

Age

34

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OVIDE PRES WHEN SUPPLY WAS INTERUPTED FOR 1 SECOND

Investigator remarks

DRG BENCH CK AFTER ACDNT,FUEL PUMPS WOULD NOT PR

Cause factors

74/C/CY C
POWERPLANT OTHER Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
83/K/D K
TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION 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 3476. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3476.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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