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Event SEA78FYM19

1978-03-13 TILLAMOOK, Oregon, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5ZH 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 · N5ZH

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DG

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001507

Total time

2,293 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

7,040

Age

40

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LDG ON ROAD.

Investigator remarks

NR 6 CONROD FAILED AT ROD BOLT END. TOPPED TREES

Cause factors

74/C/AC C
POWERPLANT MASTER AND CONNECTING RODS Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE 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 0692. Source file NTSB_1978_3_0692.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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