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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA82FLD09

1981-12-07 ORLANDO, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7021J Bell 206B 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

BELL 206B · N7021J

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B9

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

HERNDON

Kind of flying

B9

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

65° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000571

Total time

10,665 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,908

Age

42

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FOR MAINTENANCE.

Investigator remarks

ACFT COLLIDED W HANGAR WHILE BEING REPOSITIONED

Cause factors

64/A/38 A
PILOT IN COMMAND TAXIED/PARKED WITHOUT PROPER ASSISTANCE 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 3435. Source file NTSB_1981_3_3435.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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