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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Adams A55 · Jacksonville, FL · March 30, 1988

Date
March 30, 1988 · 10:00 local
Place
Jacksonville, FL
Phase of flight
Other Ground Ops
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N4016V
Reported as
Adams A55
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
500 total500 in this make and model

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.

After deplaning passengers and starting deflation the balloon envelope was blown into high tension wires.

As the FAA filed it

AFTER DEPLANING PASSENGERS AND STARTING DEFLATION THE BALLOON ENVELOPE WAS BLOWN INTO HIGH TENSION WIRES.