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Incident

FAA incident report · Cessna 172 · Charottesville, VA · October 20, 1978

Date
October 20, 1978 · 17:49 local
Place
Charottesville, VA
Airport
Albemarle
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N79967
Reported as
Cessna 172
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
296 total100 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

Pilot monitoring 121.1 only disregarded tower's flashing red light signals and landed on a closed runway.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT MONITORING 121.1 ONLY DISREGARDED TOWER'S FLASHING RED LIGHT SIGNALS AND LANDED ON A CLOSED RUNWAY.