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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK70D0122

1969-09-11 WATSONVILLE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4785C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

HILLER UH-12B

Year of manufacture

1952 · 17 years old at event

TCDS

6H2 · SIAM HILLER HOLDINGS INC

Engine

FRANKLIN 6V 350 SERIES (235 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19690414

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A5E1DC

Registrant of record

BORSZICH CLAUDE C JR

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4785C HILLER ACFT UH-12B 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-12B · N4785C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DL

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

60° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000312

Total time

460 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

5,719

Age

45

Cause factors

64/A/15 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS 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 3125. Source file NTSB_1969_3_3125.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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