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NYC78FHM27

1978-08-29 · NEPTUNE, New Jersey, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N63MC has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (AIRBUS HELICOPTERS INC AS350B3, built 2020), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
HILLER 12C · N63MC
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Balloon
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
EH
Operator type
Personal/private
Kind of flying
A0

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR
Wind
340° / 10 kt
Temp
86° F

Aircraft history

Serial number
000000000915
Total time
2,134 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
4,665
Age
43

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PREVENT HARD LANDING.

Investigator remarks

IP DID NOT SLOW HIGH RATE OF DESCENT IN TIME TO

Cause factors

  • 66/A/23 A
    DUAL STUDENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/30 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT Cause — pilot/personnel action

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 2699. Source file NTSB_1978_3_2699.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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