- Date
- October 3, 2026, 08:46 local (14:46 UTC)
- Place
- Albuquerque, NM
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N4502AHead Balloons AX8-88B
- Defining event
- Approach: Collision during takeoff/land
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- FAA-FSDO
- Case key
- 203938
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4502A
- Reported as
- Head Balloons AX8-88B
- Category
- Balloon
- Serial number
- 166
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Fitzgerald William J
- Registered owner
- Fitzgerald William J
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.