Before the Fiesta: The 2026 New Mexico Balloon Safety Report — Dataset

Aggregate safety statistics for all 59 hot air balloon ride operators on the New Mexico FAA registry, matched against the NTSB permanent federal accident record (49 CFR Part 830 mandatory filings). Includes registry counts, accident record counts, fatal accident counts, national context figures, and regulatory timeline. Every statistic is traceable to its originating public record. Full report: https://zreports.org/blog/nm-balloon-safety-report-2026 Research Institute: https://zreports.org/research Zenodo DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21631893 Harvard Dataverse DOI: 10.7910/DVN/3XHUBN