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Incident · No damage

FAA incident report · Firefly Balloons FIREFLY 10 · Temecula, CA · September 14, 2012

Date
September 14, 2012 · 08:00 local
Place
Temecula, CA
Phase of flight
Landing: Approach
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
No damage
Aircraft
N2184W
Reported as
Firefly Balloons Firefly 10
Reported engine
NONE NONE
People aboard
7
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Commercial pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
1,800 total1,100 in this make and model50 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.

N2184W landed in cul-de-sac in Temecula CA. Wind speed dropped during approach to landing and surface winds reversed 180 degrees turning N2184W away from landing field and then N2184 had to land in cul-de-sac.

As the FAA filed it

N2184W LANDED IN CUL-DE-SAC IN TEMECULA CA. WIND SPEED DROPPED DURING APPROACH TO LANDING AND SURFACE WINDS REVERSED 180 DEGREES TURNING N2184W AWAY FROM LANDING FIELD AND THEN N2184 HAD TO LAND IN CUL-DE-SAC.