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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA81FKT31

1981-03-08 MIAMI, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N62362 HILLER ACFT UH-12D 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

HILLER ACFT UH-12D · N62362

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

CY

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

010° / 10 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001075

Total time

10,000 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,230

Age

31

Cause factors

74/A/AC A
POWERPLANT MASTER AND CONNECTING RODS Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/95 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 0437. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0437.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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