- Date
- June 10, 1990, 07:10 local (11:10 UTC)
- Place
- Cazenovia, NY
- Injuries
- 2 serious, 2 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3702MBarnes Firefly 8B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 2, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 36659
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Probable cause
The passengers failure to comply with the pilots instructions after a hard landing was made.
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 private pilot made a hard landing with winds estimated at 12 knots and tipped over. One passenger was thrown out as the basket tipped over and two other passengers immediately exited the basket. The basket, releived of the weight of three passengers became airborne and the wind blew it into the passengers who were outside the basket, inflicting injuries. The pilot said the passengers failed to follow the briefing he gave them prior to landing to stay in the basket when it tipped over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3702M
- Reported as
- Barnes Firefly 8B
- Category
- Balloon, amateur-built
- Serial number
- F8B-009
- Airframe hours
- 193
- Engine
- Unknown UNKNOWN, unknown
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Part 91
- Operator
- Jim Griswold
- Registered owner
- James Griswald
- Last inspection
- Unknown · April 3, 1990 · 9 hours before
- Departed
- Jamesville, NY
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
- Certificate
- Private
- Flight hours
- 69 total · 33 in this make and model · 55 as pilot in command · 7 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 8 knots, gusting 10
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg