- Date
- September 29, 1984, 17:50 local (21:50 UTC)
- Place
- Canton, OH
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7003QAvian Balloon AX8
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840929073929A
- Case key
- 12772
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
Plt and passenger (student balloon pilot) elected a precautionary landing in an open field rather than overfly densely populated area and power lines, on touchdown, wind lifted balloon slightly and caused drift. As student plt was operating envelope vent, she fell out of the basket. Loss of load caused balloon to rise faster than plt could vent for re-landing. Balloon drifted into power lines.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7003Q
- Reported as
- Avian Balloon AX8
- Category
- Balloon
- Serial number
- 123
- Airframe hours
- 71
- Engine
- unknown
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Dawn Melton
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- CAK · Canton, OH
- Airport
- CAK · Akron-Canton
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
- 43
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Medical
- Unknown
- Flight hours
- 64 total · 64 in this make and model · 42 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 6,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 54 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CAK, 6 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.