- Date
- February 28, 2026, 08:40 local (14:40 UTC)
- Place
- East Mountain, TX
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N699DFCameron Balloons US Z-77
- Defining event
- Enroute: Controlled flight into terr/obj (CFIT)
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration - North Texas FSDO
- Case key
- 202572
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N699DF
- Reported as
- Cameron Balloons US Z-77
- Category
- Balloon
- Serial number
- 6601
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Departed
- Longview, TX
- Destination
- Longview, TX
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.05 inHg
- Observed at
- KJXI, 9 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KJXI 281435Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 13/06 A3005 RMK AO2 T01290056