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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA78FYE16

1978-03-20 FORKS, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5359V 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 · N5359V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D4

Operator type

Public use

Kind of flying

CS

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000HA2098

Total time

3,864 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,514

Age

29

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

HR INSPECTION COMP 16 HRS PRIOR.

Investigator remarks

SHORT CABLE TO AUX ANTI-TORQUE PEDAL FAILED. 100

Cause factors

68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
78/C/C2 C
ROTORCRAFT TAIL ROTOR PITCH CONTROL SYSTEM Cause
88/C/BU C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FRAYED Cause
88/C/BQ C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS EXCESSIVE-WEAR/PLAY Cause
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 0350. Source file NTSB_1978_3_0350.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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