- Date
- July 5, 1986, 08:30 local (14:30 UTC)
- Place
- Hurley, NM
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 2 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N37486Balloon Works Firefly 7
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860705030339A
- Case key
- 17004
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Miscellaneous/other
Reason for occurrence undeterminedCause
Analysis
During landing, one of the paxs in the balloon basket suffered a broken ankle. Plt says landing was a normal rip out landing. Neither he nor pax knows how injury occurred.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N37486
- Reported as
- Balloon Works Firefly 7
- Category
- Balloon
- Serial number
- F7-124
- Airframe hours
- 259
- Engine
- unknown UNK, unknown
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- First State Bank Of Dona Ana
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 16, 1985 · 70 hours before
- Departed
- 94E · Silver City, NM
N37486Registration cancelled Jul 13, 2000 · Balloon Works FIREFLY 7Airframe modelBalloon Works FIREFLY 7
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
- 42
- Certificate
- Private
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Flight hours
- 48 total · 48 in this make and model · 30 as pilot in command · 10 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 280° at 6 knots, gusting 6
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.