NTSB CAROL · Event
Event NYC66A0020
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
BRANTLY B-2B · N2263U
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Balloon
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
EB
Operator type
H
Kind of flying
DQ
Weather at impact
Sky
OBSCURATION
Temp
95° F
Aircraft history
Total time
316 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
3,617
Age
43
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
RESTRICTION BY RAIN.MAIN ROTOR STRUCK PHONE CABLE.
Investigator remarks
ATTEMPTED LANDING ON HIGHWAY DUE TO VISIBILITY
Cause factors
- 64/A/04 A PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 64/A/15 A PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 64/A/33 A PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 82/J/X J WEATHER THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY 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
2 0708.
Source file
NTSB_1965_2_0708.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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