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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 172 · Hartford, CT · July 7, 1979

Date
July 7, 1979 · 19:24 local
Place
Hartford, CT
Airport
Brainard
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N61806
Reported as
Cessna 172
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
87 total10 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 inadvertently had toe brakes on during touchdown, aircraft veered off runway, hit runway lights.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT INADVERTENTLY HAD TOE BRAKES ON DURING TOUCHDOWN, AIRCRAFT VEERED OFF RUNWAY, HIT RUNWAY LIGHTS.