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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA74DYE19

1973-09-23 FORKS, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8763F 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 · N8763F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D5

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000520087

Total time

717 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

199

Age

34

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

EL.NOT ROTOR CRAFT RATED.

Investigator remarks

EMERG AUTOROTATION,FLARED TOO HIGH.RAN OUT OF FU

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
64/B/53 B
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED ALTITUDE

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 3610. Source file NTSB_1973_3_3610.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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