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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA80DYE22

1980-03-17 JOYCE, Washington, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N47270 AEROSPATLE SA315B Minor

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

AEROSPATLE SA315B · N47270

Damage

Destroyed

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

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

270° / 5 kt

Temp

5° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002434

Total time

2,027 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

5,200

Age

33

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LOOSE. FUEL WENT OVERBOARD. OVER FOREST.

Investigator remarks

H FRAME FAILED & SEPARATED;PULLED MAIN FUEL LINE

Cause factors

78/C/D9 C
ROTORCRAFT OTHER Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
88/B/96 B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION
88/L/49 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT
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 0788. Source file NTSB_1980_3_0788.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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