- Date
- April 27, 1986, 20:15 local (Apr 28, 1986, 00:15 UTC)
- Place
- Pickney, MI
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 2 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N298CBCameron O-65
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860427017109A
- Case key
- 13451
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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 balloonest had briefed and positioned his two pax for a anticipated hard/drag landing in a 9 kt wind. He stated the balloon touched and bounced then touched and bounced again before it entered the drag sequence of the landing. The female pax suffered a fracture of the tibia during the second bounce.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N298CB
- Reported as
- Cameron O-65
- Category
- Balloon
- Serial number
- 475
- Airframe hours
- 245
- Engine
- unknown
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Herb W. Loner
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · May 4, 1985 · 32 hours before
- Departed
- Dexter, 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
- 44
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Flight hours
- 172 total · 172 in this make and model · 159 as pilot in command · 2 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 110° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DET, 39 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.