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LAX82FVG10

1981-12-10 · ANGELS CAMP, California, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
HILLER ACFT UH-12E · N93478
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Balloon
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D4
Operator type
Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)
Kind of flying
CB

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR
Wind
340° / 5 kt
Temp
68° F

Aircraft history

Serial number
000000001608
Total time
3,870 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
4,600
Age
31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ON FERTILIZER BUCKET SLUNG UNDER HELICOPTER

Investigator remarks

NR 3 CONNECTING ROD & BOLT,PN 71087,FAILED.LNDD

Cause factors

  • 74/C/AC C
    POWERPLANT MASTER AND CONNECTING RODS Cause
  • 88/C/95 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 3156. Source file NTSB_1981_3_3156.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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