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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC80DA067

1980-08-09 MERIDEN, Connecticut, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1042C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

HILLER-TRIDENT HELICOPTERS UH-12C

Engine

AMA/EXPR UNKNOWN ENG

Seats / Engines

3 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19790606

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A01631

Registrant of record

RMI AIR LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1042C HILLER ACFT UH-12C 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

HILLER ACFT UH-12C · N1042C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C2

Operator type

Business

Airport

MERIDEN

Kind of flying

B9

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

330° / 11 kt

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000846

Total time

3,835 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

IA (IA)

Total hours

0

Age

20

Investigator remarks

LOST CTL,COLLIDED WITH HANGAR.

Cause factors

84/A/8 A
MISCELLANEOUS UNQUALIFIED PERSON OPERATED AIRCRAFT Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/26 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS STOLEN OR UNAUTHORIZED USE OF AIRCRAFT 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 3 3171. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3171.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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