- Date
- July 3, 1987, 09:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Silverthorne, CO
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 9 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N41986Raven S77A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 29, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870703034129A
- Case key
- 17263
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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 commercial balloon pilot was conducting passenger flights. A landing was being made on a parking lot with ten knots of wind and gusts to twenty knots. Just at touchdown a light gust caught the balloon and dragged it one hundred feet. One passenger chose to jump out of the basket and the basket rolled over him resulting in serious injuries. None of the other eight passengers left the basket and there were no other injuries.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N41986
- Reported as
- Raven S77A
- Category
- Balloon
- Serial number
- S77A101
- Airframe hours
- 320
- Engine
- unknown
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Part 91
- Operator
- Michael Bauwens
- Registered owner
- Michael G. Bauwens
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 1, 1987
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
- 37
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Flight hours
- 1,780 total · 1,780 as pilot in command · 50 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 10 knots, gusting 20
- Visibility
- 10 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.