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Incident · Substantial damage

FAA incident report · Balwks FIREFLY7 · Beatrice, NE · February 19, 1994

Date
February 19, 1994 · 14:45 local
Place
Beatrice, NE
Phase of flight
Other Ground Ops
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N9079M
Reported as
Balwks FIREFLY7
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
330 total330 in this make and model8 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.

Strong winds aloft. Forced landing in field. Tried to deflate envelope. Winds blew balloon into barbed wire fence.

As the FAA filed it

STRONG WINDS ALOFT.FORCED LANDING IN FIELD. TRIED TO DEFLATE ENVELOPE. WINDS BLEW BALLOON INTO BARBED WIRE FENCE.

Other reports on N9079M · 1

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