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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK70F0156

1969-10-12 HILO, Hawaii, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

BAUCH B-8-M · N4019

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

I

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

GEN LYMAN FLD

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000001

Total time

41 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

61

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TCHMNT TO XTUBE WHICH CTLD PUSH RODS TO ROTR HEAD.

Investigator remarks

ROTR HIT PROP,RUDDER.CTL STICK FOUND BROKEN AT A

Cause factors

  • 78/C/C9 C
    ROTORCRAFT OTHER Cause
  • 88/C/95 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
  • 88/L/49 L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT
  • 68/3/J2 3
    PERSONNEL POOR/INADEQUATE DESIGN Subordinate · 3

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 2877. Source file NTSB_1969_3_2877.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.