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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Camron O-56 · Leonidas, MI · April 12, 1986

Date: April 12, 1986 · 18:45 local
Place: Leonidas, MI
Phase of flight: Go Round (Aborted VFR)
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N56CB
Reported as: Camron O56
People aboard: 1
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 280 total250 in this make and model4 in the last 90 days

N56CBRegistration cancelled Jul 2, 2022 · Cameron Balloons O-56S/N 140 · Built 1975 Airframe modelCameron Balloons O-56 Engine modelNONENone

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.

While attempting to abort a landing, balloon struck a tree. Small hole in envelope.

As the FAA filed it

WHILE ATTEMPTING TO ABORT A LANDING, BALLOON STRUCK A TREE. SMALL HOLE IN ENVELOPE.