- Date
- July 4, 1986, 08:00 local (12:00 UTC)
- Place
- Hamburg, MI
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 2 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N340CBCameron 77
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860704030279A
- Case key
- 13282
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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.
Hard landing
Weather condition - high windFactor
Compensation for wind conditions - inadequateCause
Analysis
Plt made a precautionary landing reportedly due to high winds. Upon touchdown the basket tipped and one of the pax received a fractured left leg.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N340CB
- Reported as
- Cameron 77
- Category
- Balloon
- Serial number
- 633
- Airframe hours
- 182
- Engine
- None NONE, unknown
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Graham Parsons
- Registered owner
- Graham Parsons
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 17, 1986 · 18 hours before
- Departed
- 75G · Manchester, MI
N340CBRegistration cancelled May 6, 2015 · Cameron Balloons V-77Airframe modelCameron Balloons V-77Engine modelNONE
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
- 39
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Flight hours
- 261 total · 261 as pilot in command · 16 in the last 90 days · 11 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- YIP, 117 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.