- Date
- March 7, 1992, 17:55 local (23:55 UTC)
- Place
- Maumelle, AR
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N6008JCameron 084
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 23, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920307005179A
- Case key
- 18451
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Probable cause
The pilots improper fuel consumption planning. A factor was a lack of suitable terrain for landing.
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
During a daylight flight lasting 1 hour and 50 minutes the pilot elected to land his balloon in a wooded swampy area due to a low fuel condition. During the landing the balloon envelope was destroyed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6008J
- Reported as
- Cameron 084
- Category
- Balloon
- Airframe hours
- 289
- Engine
- unknown
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Strack, John L.
- Registered owner
- Strack, John L.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 2, 1991 · 17 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
- 39
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Flight hours
- 502 total · 502 as pilot in command · 9 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.