19841007059039I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Balwks FIREFLY 7 · Albuquerque, NM · October 7, 1984

Date
October 7, 1984 · 09:30 local
Place
Albuquerque, NM
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N27022
Reported as
Balwks FIREFLY7
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
130 total130 in this make and model24 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.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

Wind picked up for landing. Gondola went thru a tree top and landed hard on a river bank.

As the FAA filed it

WIND PICKED UP FOR LANDING. GONDOLA WENT THRU A TREE TOP AND LANDED HARD ON A RIVER BANK.