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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 140 · Freeport, TX · May 15, 1979

Date: May 15, 1979 · 19:30 local
Place: Freeport, TX
Phase of flight: Unauth Low Level Opns
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N77357
Reported as: Cessna 140
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 8,500 total1,000 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

N77357Registered now · Cessna 140S/N 11798 · Built 1946 Airframe modelCessna 140 Engine modelContinental C85 seriesReciprocating

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 said he was overflying sandbag, got too low, could not recover. Aircraft nosed over, came to rest on back.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT SAID HE WAS OVERFLYING SANDBAG, GOT TOO LOW, COULD NOT RECOVER. AIRCRAFT NOSED OVER, CAME TO REST ON BACK.