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Event SEA82DYM07

1981-12-03 NASHVILLE, Oregon, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N161HA 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 · N161HA

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

D4

Operator type

Public use

Kind of flying

CK

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

225° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000HA3061

Total time

3,191 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,511

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NTO FUEL CELL.FILTER ON TRUCK BYPASSED.

Investigator remarks

SEAL ON FWD TNK LID ON SUPPLY TRUCK LEAKED WTR I

Cause factors

68/C/E5 C
PERSONNEL DEFICIENCY,COMPANY MAINTAINED EQPMT,SERVICES,REGULATION Cause
88/C/87 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS WATER IN FUEL Cause

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 3185. Source file NTSB_1981_3_3185.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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