Bln Works FF-7 N1532B

30 September 1980 · Rock Island, Illinois, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 30 September 1980 at about 10:00 local time, a Bln Works FF-7 registered N1532B, operated by Happy Joe's, In, was involved in an accident during the takeoff phase of flight near Rock Island, Illinois, United States. 3 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 30 September 1980 at 10:00
Classification: Accident
Location: Rock Island, Illinois, United States
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Bln Works FF-7
Registration: N1532B
Category: Balloon
Operator: Happy Joe's, In
Operating rule: Fixed Base Operator
Purpose of flight: Pleasure
Phase of flight: Takeoff
Route: S → Local
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-2755

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
3	0	0	0	3

Probable cause

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. No probable cause statement is present in the source data.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

Read the full NTSB narrative

WHILE INFLATING BLN, GND CREW LET INEXPERIENCED PSNL ASSUME DUTIES.BLN WAS RLSD BFR FULLY INFLATED.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

No coordinates. The source record does not contain a latitude and longitude, so this accident cannot be shown on the map. Everything else about it is on this page.

Source

NTSB record 3-2755, from the public aviation accident database.

Records from before 1982 are not in the NTSB's online investigation search. The full dataset can be downloaded from data.ntsb.gov/avdata.

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23 Aug 1980	Bln Works FF-7 N4039Q	Edgartown, Massachusetts, United States no coordinates	-	Minor injuries	-
20 Sep 1980	Bln Works FF-7 N4062L	Tyler, Texas, United States no coordinates	-	Minor injuries	-
17 Oct 1981	Bln Works FF-7 N1247F	Delaware, Ohio, United States no coordinates	Balloon Servic	Fatal	1

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