NTSB CAROL · Event
Event OAK78FA013
Registry · N30053
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
FIREFLY BALLOONS 2010 INC FIREFLY 12B
Year of manufacture
2016
Engine
NONE NONE
Seats / Engines
1 seats · 1 engine
Last airworthiness date
20161228
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S A32275
Registrant of record
ROCKY MOUNTAIN BALLOON ADVENTURES
Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).
Aircraft involved
Historical record (pre-1982)
NTSB recorded this accident in the pre-1982 coded-field schema — structured fields rather than free-text narrative. Decoded codes use established NTSB single-letter taxonomies; cause factors remain verbatim pending the Form 6120.4 codebook lookup.
Aircraft
CESSNA T210L · N30053
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dusk
Weather
IMC
Phase of flight
DC
Operator type
D
Airport
BISHOP
Kind of flying
B0
Weather at impact
Sky
OBSCURATION
Aircraft history
Serial number
000021059881
Total time
871 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
6,500
Age
50
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
RETURN TO A/P,IMPACTED GROUND BELOW RWY ELEVATION
Investigator remarks
FOG IN FORCAST.DEPT END OF RWY CLEAR.PLT ATTMPTD
Cause factors
- 64/A/40 A PILOT IN COMMAND INITIATED FLIGHT IN ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 64/A/23 A PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 82/J/C J WEATHER FOG Joint cause
Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.
Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket
3 1665.
Source file
NTSB_1978_3_1665.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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