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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA73DLT11

1972-11-01 MILLINGTON, Tennessee, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9468F

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

HUGHES 269B

Year of manufacture

1966 · 6 years old at event

TCDS

4H12 · SCHWEIZER RSG LLC

Engine

LYCOMING I0360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

3 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19670516

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AD26E8

Registrant of record

COLEMAN HAROLD D

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9468F 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 · N9468F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D4

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

CY

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

190° / 16 kt

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000106-0264

Total time

1,601 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,450

Age

26

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

MAINTAIN M/R RPM.INSTALLING SOIL SAMPLE BUCKETS.

Investigator remarks

HOVER TURN INTO 25K GUSTS OVR SOY BEAN FIELD,UN

Cause factors

64/A/28 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/J/H J
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Joint cause
83/J/D J
TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION Joint cause

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 4050. Source file NTSB_1972_3_4050.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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