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Incident

FAA incident report · Cessna 172N · Weatherford, TX · September 9, 1979

Date
September 9, 1979 · 19:15 local
Place
Weatherford, TX
Phase of flight
Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N737EW
Reported as
Cessna 172N
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
325 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 landed safely on road due to fuel exhaustion. Faulty fuel transmitter caused gauge to read one half full.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT LANDED SAFELY ON ROAD DUE TO FUEL EXHAUSTION. FAULTY FUEL TRANSMITTER CAUSED GAUGE TO READ ONE HALF FULL.