19790126001569A

Accident · Substantial damage

FAA accident report · Cessna A188B · Brawley, CA · January 26, 1979

Date
January 26, 1979 · 18:20 local
Place
Brawley, CA
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
Agricultural (Part 137)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N731UA
NTSB investigation
NTSBLAX79DUM05
Reported as
Cessna A188B
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
15,000 total4,000 in this make and model225 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 landed after dark adjacent to an old runway which had been closed and marked with an x. hit a ditch, lost ge

As the FAA filed it

PILOT LANDED AFTER DARK ADJACENT TO AN OLD RUNWAY WHICH HAD BEEN CLOSED AND MARKED WITH AN X. HIT A DITCH, LOST GE

NTSB investigation

The NTSB’s investigation of this event, with its probable cause and findings. Matched to this report by N-number and date.