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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA79DLG29

1979-08-20 TIMMONSVILLE, South Carolina, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N121NR Hiller UH-12E Minor

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

HILLER UH-12E · N121NR

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DH

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 5 kt

Temp

90° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001594

Total time

1,950 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

8,160

Age

38

Investigator remarks

PIC FLEW UNDER POWER LINES.

Cause factors

64/A/54 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/J/M J
WEATHER DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS 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 2052. Source file NTSB_1979_3_2052.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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