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Incident · No damage

FAA incident report · Cameron Balloons US Z-77 · Louisville, KY · April 26, 2018

Date
April 26, 2018 · 08:45 local
Place
Louisville, KY
Airport
Bowman Field
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
No damage
Aircraft
N45054
Reported as
Cameron Balloons US Z-77
Reported engine
NONE NONE
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificates
Commercial pilot, private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
170 total140 in this make and model3 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.

While flying during a waivered event, a hot air balloon collided with a parked pickup truck during an attempted landing. The pilot rejected the landing and landed uneventfully in another field.

As the FAA filed it

WHILE FLYING DURING A WAIVERED EVENT, A HOT AIR BALLOON COLLIDED WITH A PARKED PICKUP TRUCK DURING AN ATTEMPTED LANDING. THE PILOT REJECTED THE LANDING AND LANDED UNEVENTFULLY IN ANOTHER FIELD.