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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA76DYA48

1976-09-08 JEROME, Idaho, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N62346 HILLER ACFT UH-12E 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

HILLER ACFT UH-12E · N62346

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C2

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

UN NAMED

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001204

Total time

8,980 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,140

Age

37

Investigator remarks

CLUTCH SLIPPED. HIT ROAD BANK. SPRAYING ALFALFA.

Cause factors

78/C/BJ C
ROTORCRAFT CLUTCH ASSEMBLY Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 2820. Source file NTSB_1976_3_2820.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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