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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Colt 240A · Phoenix, AZ · October 16, 1993

Date: October 16, 1993 · 07:30 local
Place: Phoenix, AZ
Phase of flight: Descent
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N434TC
Reported as: Colt 240A
People aboard: 7
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 1,820 total200 in this make and model35 in the last 90 days

N434TCRegistered now · Thunder & Colt Airborne Amer 240AS/N 2258USA · Built 1992 Airframe modelThunder & Colt Airborne Amer 240A 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.

Balloon basket skidded into a tree while attemping to land in high winds.

As the FAA filed it

BALLOON BASKET SKIDDED INTO A TREE WHILE ATTEMPING TO LAND IN HIGH WINDS.

Other reports on N434TC · 1

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

Accident 19960927030309ALevel Off Touchdown · Phoenix, AZHard landing lifted. Hit wall. Pilot fell out. Balloon drifted and finaly landed. No wx brief. Failed deflate.Sep 27, 1996 · Minor damage