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Category · FY2027

V97 Other specified air transport accidents

  • Header · not billable
  • Codes take a 7th character

V97 is not billable. The category heads 39 billable codes in FY2027, grouped under 5 subdivisions. Its codes take a 7th character, so none is complete with fewer than 7 characters.

Billable codes
39
Subdivisions
5
CC / MCC codes
0 / 0
HCC V28 codes
0
New FY2027
0
Index entries
0

Codes in V97

  1. V97.0
    Occupant of aircraft injured in other specified air transport accidents +7th: A D S
    Needs 7th characterExempt
    Inclusion terms 1, Excludes1 1

    Inclusion terms

    • Fall in, on or from aircraft in air transport accident

    Excludes1

    • accident while boarding or alighting aircraft (V97.1) V97.1
  2. V97.1
    Person injured while boarding or alighting from aircraft +7th: A D S
    Needs 7th characterExempt
  3. V97.2
    Parachutist accident
    Header
  4. V97.21
    Parachutist entangled in object +7th: A D S
    Needs 7th characterExempt
    Inclusion terms 1

    Inclusion terms

    • Parachutist landing in tree
  5. V97.22
    Parachutist injured on landing +7th: A D S
    Needs 7th characterExempt
  6. V97.29
    Other parachutist accident +7th: A D S
    Needs 7th characterExempt
  7. V97.3
    Person on ground injured in air transport accident
    Header
  8. V97.31
    Hit by object falling from aircraft +7th: A D S
    Needs 7th characterExempt
    Inclusion terms 3

    Inclusion terms

    • Hit by crashing aircraft
    • Injured by aircraft hitting house
    • Injured by aircraft hitting car
  9. V97.32
    Injured by rotating propeller +7th: A D S
    Needs 7th characterExempt
  10. V97.33
    Sucked into jet engine +7th: A D S
    Needs 7th characterExempt
  11. V97.39
    Other injury to person on ground due to air transport accident +7th: A D S
    Needs 7th characterExempt
  12. V97.8
    Other air transport accidents, not elsewhere classified
    Header
    Excludes1 2

    Excludes1

    • aircraft accident NOS (V95.9) V95.9
    • exposure to changes in air pressure during ascent or descent (W94.-) W94
  13. V97.81
    Air transport accident involving military aircraft
    Header
  14. V97.810
    Civilian aircraft involved in air transport accident with military aircraft +7th: A D S
    Needs 7th characterExempt
    Inclusion terms 1

    Inclusion terms

    • Passenger in civilian aircraft injured due to accident with military aircraft
  15. V97.811
    Civilian injured by military aircraft +7th: A D S
    Needs 7th characterExempt
  16. V97.818
    Other air transport accident involving military aircraft +7th: A D S
    Needs 7th characterExempt
  17. V97.89
    Other air transport accidents, not elsewhere classified +7th: A D S
    Needs 7th characterExempt
    Inclusion terms 1

    Inclusion terms

    • Injury from machinery on aircraft

Sources of each column. Rows marked +7th need a 7th character: pick one to build the full code; its code card has its own flags.

Instructions

Notes that also apply

Block V95-V97 instructions (Excludes1 1): printed on the block page.

Instructions for the group V00-V99 (Notes 28, Excludes1 5, Excludes2 1, Use additional code 4): printed on the chapter 20 page.

Chapter 20 instructions (Notes 1): printed on the chapter 20 page.

7th characters

7th characters for V97 defined here

The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category V97

7th characters for V97
7thMeaning (NCHS)
Ainitial encounter
Dsubsequent encounter
Ssequela

A code that takes a 7th character is invalid without it; the placeholder X fills a code shorter than 6 characters (Official Guidelines I.A.5). How 7th characters work.

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