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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Adams A55 · Kingsbury, NY · September 19, 1993

Date: September 19, 1993 · 07:10 local
Place: Kingsbury, NY
Phase of flight: Other Ground Ops
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N9803N
Reported as: Adams A55
People aboard: 3
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 160 total100 in this make and model40 in the last 90 days

N9803NRegistration cancelled Apr 2, 2013 · Adams Balloon A55S/N 168 · Built 1986 Airframe modelAdams Balloon A55 Engine modelAmateur-built UNKNOWN ENG

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.

Passenger blocked rip cord as pilot attempted to pull rip cord on landing. Balloon drifted to powerline. Deflated.

As the FAA filed it

PASSENGER BLOCKED RIP CORD AS PILOT ATTEMPTED TO PULL RIP CORD ON LANDING.BALLOON DRIFTED TO POWERLINE. DEFLATED.