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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Balwks FIREFLY 8B · Orlando, FL · February 13, 1993

Date
February 13, 1993 · 08:15 local
Place
Orlando, FL
Phase of flight
Other Ground Ops
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N7411Q
Reported as
Balwks FIREFLY8B
People aboard
5
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
800 total600 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.

Pilot landed balloon in open area near light pole. Pilot got out. Wind blew unmanned balloon into light pole.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT LANDED BALLOON IN OPEN AREA NEAR LIGHT POLE. PILOT GOT OUT. WIND BLEW UNMANNED BALLOON INTO LIGHT POLE.