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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA80FYM54

1979-07-25 BAY CITY, Oregon, United States Serious 2 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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

HUGHES 369D · N58184

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

CS

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

340° / 10 kt

Temp

61° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0028-8016064

Total time

612 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

2,136

Age

34

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

L NIGHT TIME.

Investigator remarks

ACFT HIT APCH LIGHT TOWERS. PLT HAD 1.5 HRS TOTA

Cause factors

74/C/SE C
POWERPLANT FUEL CONTROL Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 3095. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3095.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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