19790422024559I

Incident · Substantial damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 337 · California City, CA · April 22, 1979

Date
April 22, 1979 · 19:45 local
Place
California City, CA
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Forced Landing
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N4CY
Reported as
Cessna 337
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
10,000 total300 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 ran out of fuel at night. Landed on unlighted airport with considerable damage.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT RAN OUT OF FUEL AT NIGHT. LANDED ON UNLIGHTED AIRPORT WITH CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE.