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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 188B · Holtville, CA · September 8, 1979

Date
September 8, 1979 · 04:00 local
Place
Holtville, CA
Phase of flight
Low Level Operations
Operating rules
Agricultural (Part 137)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N731UK
Reported as
Cessna 188B
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
9,000 total2,000 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.

Plane was too slow while trying to get under power lines. Settled into crop.

As the FAA filed it

PLANE WAS TOO SLOW WHILE TRYING TO GET UNDER POWER LINES. SETTLED INTO CROP.