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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK70F0003

1969-04-22 LINCOLN, California, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N436F Hiller FH1100 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 FH1100 · N436F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EI

Operator type

H

Airport

LINCOLN

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

86 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,519

Age

46

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

WENT OUT OF CONTROL,STRUCK GRND,ROLLED OVER.

Investigator remarks

T/R STRUCK GRND DURING FLARE FOR LDG. ACFT THEN

Cause factors

88/A/85 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SIMULATED CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/53 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED ALTITUDE 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 2330. Source file NTSB_1969_3_2330.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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