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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA73FYC08

1972-09-09 PORTLAND, Oregon, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8752F Hughes 269A Serious

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 · N8752F

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000520075

Total time

2,441 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

96

Age

24

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LY CARB HEAT

Investigator remarks

PLT INADVERTENTLY CUT OFF FUEL WHEN ATMTG TO APP

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
64/B/18 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN ADEQUATE ROTOR R.P.M.

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 3562. Source file NTSB_1972_3_3562.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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