- Date
- July 24, 1993, 08:00 local (14:00 UTC)
- Place
- Colorado Sprgs, CO
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 2 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9067YBalloon Works 7B-15
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 3, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930724025319A
- Case key
- 18303
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Probable cause
The passenger's failure to assume the proper landing position as instructed by the pilot in command. A factor was: the high wind.
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
After being aloft for approximately 20 minutes, the flight of four balloons encountered increased winds aloft. The pilots collectively elected to land. During the landing, a passenger failed to assumed the proper position and sustained a leg fracture on touchdown. The pilot and another passenger were not injured. According to the pilot, she briefed her passengers prior to takeoff, while aloft, and just prior to landing on the proper position to assume for the landing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9067Y
- Reported as
- Balloon Works 7B-15
- Category
- Balloon
- Serial number
- F7B-315
- Airframe hours
- 83
- Engine
- unknown
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Part 91
- Operator
- Walsh, Arthur J. & Cathy L.
- Registered owner
- Walsh, Arthur J. & Cathy L.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 5, 1993 · 7 hours before
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
- Commercial
- Flight hours
- 135 total · 50 in this make and model · 135 as pilot in command · 8 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 54 °F, dew point 52 °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.