What happened
The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.
Balloon basket struck power lines on approach to landing.
As the FAA filed it
BALLOON BASKET STRUCK POWER LINES ON APPROACH TO LANDING.
FAA incident report · Picard AX6 · Seminole, FL · November 18, 1979
- Date
- November 18, 1979 · 08:35 local
- Place
- Seminole, FL
- Phase of flight
- Final Approach
- Operating rules
- General operating rules (Part 91)
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Aircraft
- N2064F
- Reported as
- Picard AX6
- People aboard
- 1
- Fatal injuries
- 0
- Pilot’s flight hours
- 90 total40 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days
From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.