19790429025319I

Incident

FAA incident report · Cessna 175 · Santa Ana, CA · April 29, 1979

Date
April 29, 1979 · 12:00 local
Place
Santa Ana, CA
Phase of flight
Descent
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N7431M
Reported as
Cessna 175
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
650 total15 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 lost power, forced to land in a field. Fuel tank finger screens found stopped up.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT LOST POWER, FORCED TO LAND IN A FIELD. FUEL TANK FINGER SCREENS FOUND STOPPED UP.