# Incident 19790225007689I: Cessna 172N, West Chicago, IL, February 25, 1979

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: February 25, 1979, 16:53 local time
- Place: West Chicago, IL
- Airport: Dupage
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 41.9071° N, 88.2480° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at DUPAGE (DPA), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=41.9071&lon=-88.2480&mi=10
- Aircraft: N733AN, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N733AN) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 172N (registry code 2072434, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-172n) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming 0-320 series (registry code 41508, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-0-320-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 172N
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 900 total, 500 in this make and model, 0 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19790225007689I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

AIRCRAFT SEAT SLID BACK AND INSTRUCTOR COULD NOT RETAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL. RAN INTO SNOWBANK ON ROLLOUT.

## Other reports on N733AN (2)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Accident 19850309029429A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19850309029429A), Mar 9, 1985: Cessna 172N (N733AN), Temple, TX, Destroyed. Student on unauthorized crosscountry night flight with a passenger landed hard. Nose tire blown, firewall wrinkled.
- [Accident 19810131003599A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19810131003599A), Jan 31, 1981: Cessna 172N (N733AN), Sandusky, OH, Substantial damage. Bounced on landing, porpoised, ran off runway into a snowbank.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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