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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA69F0024

1968-06-23 MEDFORD, Oregon, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8711F Hughes 269A 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

HUGHES 269A · N8711F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Business

Airport

MEDFORD MUNI

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

65° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,279 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,120

Age

49

Investigator remarks

LANDED IN PARTIALLY DRY CREEK BED.

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
88/K/88 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER Joint factor

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 3482. Source file NTSB_1968_3_3482.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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