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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 172F · Greenville, MS · November 4, 1979

Date: November 4, 1979 · 13:30 local
Place: Greenville, MS
Airport: Pitman
Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N8234U
Reported as: Cessna 172F
Reported engine: Continental O300A
People aboard: 1
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 1,600 total555 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

N8234URegistered now · Cessna 172FS/N 17252134 · Built 1964 Airframe modelCessna 172F Engine modelContinental 0-300 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.

While landing on farm, engine faltered, aircraft struck farm machine, engine caught, flew on to sod strip to land.

As the FAA filed it

WHILE LANDING ON FARM, ENGINE FALTERED, AIRCRAFT STRUCK FARM MACHINE, ENGINE CAUGHT, FLEW ON TO SOD STRIP TO LAND.