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Event MIA71FKW52

1971-05-27 CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9326F

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

HUGHES 269B

Year of manufacture

1964 · 7 years old at event

TCDS

4H12 · SCHWEIZER RSG LLC

Engine

LYCOMING I0360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

3 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19670329

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ACF047

Registrant of record

LELYS

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9326F Hughes 269B 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

HUGHES 269B · N9326F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EI

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000024-0031

Total time

1,427 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

9,442

Age

38

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

N PLT TRIED TO STOP ACFT FROM NOSING OVER.

Investigator remarks

ENG QUIT DRG PRACTICE AUTO.M/R BLDS HIT TAIL WHE

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
64/B/50 B
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED SPEED
64/B/23 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint factor
88/K/85 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SIMULATED CONDITIONS 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 2167. Source file NTSB_1971_3_2167.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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