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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA66A0006

1966-07-13 ARECIBO, Puerto Rico, United States None 2 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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

HUGHES 269B · N9395F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Total time

388 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

337

Age

24

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

IN CONFINED AREA,WITH HIGH TEMP AND HUMIDITY CONDS

Investigator remarks

PLT INITIATED FULL-LOAD TAKE-OFF FROM TRUCK BED

Cause factors

64/C/35 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause
64/C/18 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN ADEQUATE ROTOR R.P.M. Cause
64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
82/L/U L
WEATHER HIGH TEMPERATURE

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 2 0574. Source file NTSB_1966_2_0574.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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