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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Raven RX7 · Albuquerque, NM · July 12, 1987

Date
July 12, 1987 · 08:30 local
Place
Albuquerque, NM
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N2798D
Reported as
Raven RX7
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
25 total25 in this make and model14 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.

Landed in an open field due to low fuel. The wind blew the balloon into a tree.

As the FAA filed it

LANDED IN AN OPEN FIELD DUE TO LOW FUEL. THE WIND BLEW THE BALLOON INTO A TREE.