- Date
- September 8, 1990, 19:15 local (Sep 9, 1990, 00:15 UTC)
- Place
- Altoona, IA
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9006YNational Balloon AX-7
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 9, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900908044499A
- Case key
- 14775
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Probable cause
The passenger's inadvertent contact with a propane tank during a bounced landing which resulted in serious injury to the passenger.
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
On landing the balloon, the craft encountered a bounce. During this event the passenger came in contact with the propane tank and suffered serious injury. The pilot and the aircraft were not damaged.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9006Y
- Reported as
- National Balloon AX-7
- Category
- Balloon
- Engine
- Unknown UNKNOWN, unknown
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Kevin Mart
- Registered owner
- Ted Mart
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
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
- 30
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Medical
- Unknown
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.