- Date
- May 30, 1983, 11:20 local (17:20 UTC)
- Place
- Del Norte, CO
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 3 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N1516SBalloon Works Firefly 7
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830530034589A
- Case key
- 16008
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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
While circumnavigating snow showers at night in mountainous terrain the plt elected to make a precautionary landing on a highway. The acft struck trees on a hillside that the plt hadn't seen in the darkness.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1516S
- Reported as
- Balloon Works Firefly 7
- Category
- Balloon
- Serial number
- 11086
- Airframe hours
- 146
- Engine
- unknown
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Diana L. Doga
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · April 10, 1983 · 10 hours before
- Departed
- Balloon Ranch, CO
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
- 36
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 75 total · 53 in this make and model · 8 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 2 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.