- Date
- May 5, 1974
- Place
- Lafayette, NY · LAFAYETTE, NY
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 minor
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N73RDRaven S50A
- Status
- Completed · report July 19, 1974
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19740505016519A
- Case key
- 124778
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-1461 74/5/5 LAFAYETTE,NY RAVEN S50A CR- 0 1 0 NONCOMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 26, 21 TIME - 1230 N73RD PX- 0 0 1 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, ALL IN TYPE, DAMAGE-NONE OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION LAFAYETTE,NY LOCAL TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION TURBULENCE LANDING: FINAL APPROACH COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: UNCONTROLLED LANDING: FINAL APPROACH PROBABLE CAUSE(S) WEATHER - TURBULENCE IN FLIGHT,CLEAR AIR FACTOR(S) TERRAIN - ROUGH/UNEVEN WEATHER BRIEFING - BRIEFING RECEIVED-METHOD UNKNOWN WEATHER FORECAST - UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE CLEAR UNLIMITED VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE 5 OR OVER(UNLIMITED) NONE OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS NONE VFR TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN NONE REMARKS- AT 100FT,LNDG APPROACH,HOT AIR BALLOON ENCTRD TURBC.DUE SPIN ATTITUDE,PLT UN GET HEAT INTO BALLOON
Aircraft
- Registration
- N73RD
- Reported as
- Raven S50A
- Category
- Balloon
- Engine
- none
- Damage
- No damage
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FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.