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SEA79DYM55

1979-07-28 · WARM SPGS RES, Oregon, United States · Minor · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N6ZH has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (GUGLIELMI PAUL OSPREY GP4, built 2000), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
HILLER ACFT UH-12E · N6ZH
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Balloon
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
Personal/private
Kind of flying
CY

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number
000000001624
Total time
1,235 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Flight instructor (CFI)
Total hours
14,100
Age
51

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TO LND ON STEEP SLOPE.

Investigator remarks

CONROD CAP BOLT FAILED. HERDING HORSES. PLT HAD

Cause factors

  • 74/C/AC C
    POWERPLANT MASTER AND CONNECTING RODS 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).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 2993. Source file NTSB_1979_3_2993.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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