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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA79FKG08

1978-11-04 ATLANTA, Georgia, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N62339 AEROSPATLE SA315B 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

AEROSPATLE SA315B · N62339

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C2

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

CHARLIE BROWN

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002401

Total time

1,196 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,490

Age

31

Investigator remarks

R SKID HUNG UP ON R TIE DOWN STRAPS OF TRAILER.

Cause factors

64/A/29 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING 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 3157. Source file NTSB_1978_3_3157.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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