- Date
- June 17, 1990, 09:00 local (16:00 UTC)
- Place
- Moorpark, CA
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 3 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1523CBalloon Works Firefly 7B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 23, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900617052129A
- Case key
- 26938
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to arrest descent 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
In a telephone report to FAA inspectors, the pilot said the balloon was landing in mild winds, made a 'bumpy' landing, and the basket tipped over. The pilot and two passengers fell on top of the third passenger, who sustained a fracture of the pelvis.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1523C
- Reported as
- Balloon Works Firefly 7B
- Category
- Balloon
- Serial number
- 10342
- Engine
- unknown
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Part 91
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Departed
- NONE
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
- 46
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Flight hours
- 200 total · 40 in this make and model · 150 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.