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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA80DYE32

1980-05-15 FORKS, Washington, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5359V HILLER ACFT UH-12E Serious

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

Destroyed

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D9

Operator type

Public use

Kind of flying

CS

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002098

Total time

4,805 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

5,000

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LED ACFT ON ITS SIDE.UN MAN OR ELECTRICAL RLS.

Investigator remarks

HEL STRINGING LN FM LOGGING TWR.LN TIGHTENED,PUL

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 0777. Source file NTSB_1980_3_0777.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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