NTSB CAROL · Event
Event MIA76DKG01
Registry · N9071F
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
AEROSTAR INTERNATIONAL INC RX 8
Year of manufacture
1993
Engine
NONE NONE
Seats / Engines
1 seats · 1 engine
Last airworthiness date
19930513
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S AC8BAE
Registrant of record
HALL ROBERT B
Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).
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 369 · N9071F
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Balloon
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
EI
Operator type
D
Airport
SAVANNAH MUNI
Kind of flying
A0
Weather at impact
Sky
CLEAR
Wind
090° / 5 kt
Aircraft history
Serial number
00000000278S
Total time
1,680 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Flight instructor (CFI)
Total hours
3,697
Age
28
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
ERED TAIL BOOM.
Investigator remarks
LNDD HARD ON AFT PORTION OF SKIDS.MAIN ROTOR SEV
Cause factors
- 64/A/49 A PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED SPEED AND ALTITUDE Cause — pilot/personnel action
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 2878.
Source file
NTSB_1975_3_2878.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
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- Semantic Scholar 2020 · Article (Pilot and Feasibility Studies)
Assessing the effectiveness of a comprehensive menstrual health intervention program in Ugandan schools (MENISCUS): process evaluation of a pilot intervention study
Background Poor menstrual health and hygiene (MHH) is a globally recognised public health challenge. A pilot study of an MHH intervention was conducted in two secondary schools in Entebbe, Uganda, ove…
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2020 · Conference paper
Drones: Where does the National Airspace System Start?
Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), Unmanned Aeronautical Vehicles (UAV), drones and Personal Aerial Vehicles (PAV) constitute the greatest technological advancement since the jet age.
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