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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA81DYE08

1980-11-19 FORKS, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N542HA

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

EA VISION EA J100

0

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A6E00A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N542HA 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 · N542HA

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D5

Operator type

Public use

Kind of flying

CS

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

300° / 5 kt

Temp

57° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000005042

Total time

2,001 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

5,284

Age

36

Investigator remarks

PG AIR LINE NUT AT FUEL CTL END LOOSE.

Cause factors

74/C/SE C
POWERPLANT FUEL CONTROL Cause
88/C/29 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY SECURED Cause
88/C/AV C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LOOSE,PART/FITTING Cause
68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION 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 3717. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3717.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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