# NTSB investigations: Cameron Balloons US O-77

NTSB aviation accident and incident investigations since 1962: the probable cause, findings, aircraft, crew, weather and docket of each, linked to the FAA registry and the FAA’s own reports.

## Latest cases

- [NTSB CHI07CA300](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CHI07CA300.md): Cameron Balloons O-77 · Creston, IA · Accident · Serious injuries · Data collection · Final report · Sep 16, 2007 · N9539G · Substantial damage
  > The pilot's inadvertent flight into adverse (high wind) weather conditions, which resulted in a hard landing. Contributing to the accident was the high wind encountered during the balloon flight and the barbed-wire fence.
- [NTSB CHI03LA208](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CHI03LA208.md): Cameron Balloons O-77 · Battle Creek, MI · Accident · Serious injuries · Limited investigation · Final report · Jul 4, 2003 · N8085G · No damage
  > The pilot's excessive descent rate. Factors to the accident were the trees lining the landing area.
- [NTSB CHI92LA293](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CHI92LA293.md): Cameron O-77 · North Omaha, NE · Accident · Serious injuries · Limited investigation · Final report · Sep 27, 1992 · N9539G · No damage
  > The pilot's abrupt touchdown during a balloon landing. A related factor is the unsuitable terrain selected.
- [NTSB LAX86LA359](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/LAX86LA359.md): Cameron 0-77 · Tiburon, CA · Accident · No injuries · Limited investigation · Final report · Sep 30, 1986 · N2948G · Destroyed
  > After completing an aerial advertising flight across the san francisco bay, the plt attempted a landing on up-sloping terrain. The terrain was steeper than anticipated & the plt became distracted. The plt forgot to turn off the pilot light to the left burner.…

## The whole list in SQL

Runs in DuckDB 1.2 or later on the release's Parquet files over HTTPS:

```sql
SELECT c."ntsbNumber", c."eventDate", c."eventType", c."eventCity", c."eventStateOrRegion", a.n_number, a."aircraftMake", a."aircraftModel", c."highestInjuryLevel", c."totalFatal", c."completionStatus", c.report_url
FROM 'https://openairdocs.org/data/latest/ntsb_case_detail.parquet' c LEFT JOIN 'https://openairdocs.org/data/latest/ntsb_aircrafts.parquet' a ON a.case_mkey = c."mKey" AND a.position = 1
WHERE c."mKey" IN (SELECT x.case_mkey FROM 'https://openairdocs.org/data/latest/ntsb_aircrafts.parquet' x WHERE x.aircraft_model_code IN ('1880207'))
ORDER BY c."eventDate" DESC, c."ntsbNumber" DESC
```

This list as a web page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb?model=1880207

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