# Incident 19990530015919I: Galaxy GALAXY8B, Anthony, NM, May 30, 1999

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: May 30, 1999, 07:45 local time
- Place: Anthony, NM
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Descent
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 32.0131° N, 106.5984° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Anthony, NM, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=32.0131&lon=-106.5984&mi=10
- Aircraft: N5226T, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N5226T) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Galaxy Balloons GALAXY 8B (registry code 3760532, https://openairdocs.org/model/galaxy-balloons-galaxy-8b) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: NONE (registry code 00000, https://openairdocs.org/engine/none) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: GALAXY GALAXY8B
- People aboard: 3
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 10,420 total, 252 in this make and model, 9 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19990530015919I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

ON 5/30/99, APPROXIMATELY 0745 MOUNTAIN DAYLIGHT TIME, A GALAXY 8B (N5226T), OPERATED BY ITS OWNER, MR. THEODORE M. NAGY, SUSTAINED MINOR DAMAGE WHEN IT CONTACTED POWERLINES DURING A LANDING APPROACH TO A PARKING LOT APPROXIMATELY 5 MILES SOUTH OF ANTHONY, NM. THE PILOT-IN-COMMAND HOLDS A COMMERCIAL PILOT CERTIFICATE WITH AIRPLANE, SINGLE & MULTIENGINE, LAND, INSTRUMENT-AIRPLANE, & LIGHTER-THAN-AIR, BALLOON RATIN(S).  NEITHER THE PILOT, NOR EITHER OF HIS TWO PASSENGERS WERE INJURED.  VISUAL METEOROLOGICAL CONDIDTIONS PREVAILED, AND NO FLIGHT PLAN WAS FILED FOR THE FLIGHT WHICH DEPARTED "WET 'N WILD" WATER PARK, ANTHONY, NM, UNDER 14 CFR PART 91. DURING AN INTERVIEW, THE PILOT STATED HE HAS SELECTED THE PARKING LOT BEHIND A RESTAURANT AS HIS LANDING SITE, AND WAS MANEUVERING TOWARD THE AREA. HE AND HIS PASSENGERS SCANNED THE AREA FOR OBSTRUCTIONS, AND NOTICED A FENCE ON A BERM OF HIGHER GROUND TO THE UPWIND SIDE OF THE AREA. HE BEGAN A SLOW DESCENT, PLANNING TO TOUCH DOWN ON THE UPWIND EDGE OF THE PARKING LOT. AS THE BALLOON DESCENDED HE NOTICED THE WIRES AGAINST THE SKY (HE STATED THE POLES BLENDED IN WITH THE BUILDING ON ONE SIDE AND A DEBRIS PILE ON THE OTHER - THE POWERLINES TH EMSELVES WERE MASKED BY THE DARK COLORED PARKING LOT.) HE INSTRUCTED HIS PASSENGERS TO SIT ON THE FLOOR OF THE BASKET AND BEGAN TO DEFLATE THE BALLOON. HE BALLOON BASKET AND ENVELOPE CONTACTED THE GROUND AND POWERLINES SIMULTANEOUSLY. THE AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST WITH THE BASKET ON THE GROUND AND THE ENVELOPEDRAPED OVER THE POWERLINES. MR. NAGY HAS MET WITH THE ABQ FSDO SAFETY PROGRAM MANAGER, (SPM) ABOUT THIS INCIDENT.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

---
OpenAirDocs.org is an independent research project of [Contrail Labs](https://contraillabs.com/). It is not affiliated with the FAA or the NTSB. Source documents are U.S. government works in the public domain.