NTSB CAROL · Event
Event SEA66A0030
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
BRANTLY B-2 · N5991X
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Balloon
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
Personal/private
Kind of flying
DD
Weather at impact
Sky
CLEAR
Temp
39° F
Aircraft history
Total time
224 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Flight instructor (CFI)
Total hours
15,000
Age
37
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
GOT OUT.ACFT FELL OFF CLIFF.ENGINE INACCESSIBLE.
Investigator remarks
SUSPECTED CARB ICE.LANDED NEAR CLIFF EDGE.PILOT
Cause factors
- 74/C/KA C POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
- 83/B/F B TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN
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
2 0990.
Source file
NTSB_1965_2_0990.txt.
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