- Date
- March 12, 1983, 18:20 local (23:20 UTC)
- Place
- Augusta, MI
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4057KBalloon Works Firefly AX-7
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830312009109A
- Case key
- 12107
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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
The balloon made a hard landing and ejected the pilot and passenger. The landing was made in a school parking lot. Afterdropping the occupants the balloon contacted power lines with the envelope. The occurants were not injured.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4057K
- Reported as
- Balloon Works Firefly AX-7 (FIREFLY AX)
- Category
- Balloon
- Serial number
- 10114
- Airframe hours
- 270
- Engine
- none T3-017, unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Richard C. Tereba
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 28, 1982 · 58 hours before
- Departed
- Kalamazoo, MI
- Destination
- Augusta, MI
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
- 34
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Unknown
- Flight hours
- 124 total · 124 in this make and model · 115 as pilot in command · 5 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- AZO, 20 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.