19790501100039I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 172 · Waterloo, IA · May 1, 1979

Date
May 1, 1979 · 12:10 local
Place
Waterloo, IA
Phase of flight
Initial Approach-IFR
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N7039Q
Reported as
Cessna 172
Reported engine
Continental O300A
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
250 total148 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.

Throttle would not respond due to failure of throttle cable housing

As the FAA filed it

THROTTLE WOULD NOT RESPOND DUE TO FAILURE OF THROTTLE CABLE HOUSING