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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Lindstrand Balloons 90A · Center, WI · December 3, 2017

Date
December 3, 2017 · 08:53 local
Place
Center, WI
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N75199
Reported as
Lindstrand Balloons 90A
Reported engine
NONE NONE
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
23 total23 in this make and model6 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.

Pilot was attempting to land in an open corn field but landed in a ditch with the envelope draped over power wires.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT WAS ATTEMPTING TO LAND IN AN OPEN CORN FIELD BUT LANDED IN A DITCH WITH THE ENVELOPE DRAPED OVER POWER WIRES.