- Date
- February 27, 1982, 17:20 local (22:20 UTC)
- Place
- Cincinnati, OH
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 minor, 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N1522WBarnes FIREFLY-7
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 27, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820227002009A
- Case key
- 70251
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
Pilot stated that after a normal inflation, before the balloon was hot enough to sustain flight, a gust of wind blew it into a school building. After striking the building, the balloon was dragged through a line of trees.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1522W
- Reported as
- Barnes FIREFLY-7
- Category
- Balloon
- Serial number
- 11114
- Airframe hours
- 15
- Engine
- unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Eldridge L. Fancher
- Registered owner
- Eldridge L. Fancher
- Departed
- Cincinnati, OH
- Destination
- Cincinnati, OH
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.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 37
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Medical
- Unknown
- Flight hours
- 160 total · 154 in this make and model · 144 as pilot in command · 3 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 50° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Temperature
- 129 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LUK
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.