# Incident 19791110055009I: Cessna 172N, Orchard Park, NY, November 10, 1979

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: November 10, 1979, 21:30 local time
- Place: Orchard Park, NY
- Airport: Municipal
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 42.7622° N, 78.7414° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Orchard Park, NY, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=42.7622&lon=-78.7414&mi=10
- Aircraft: N2723U, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N2723U-2012-03-14) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 172D (registry code 2072410, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-172d) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental 0-300 series (registry code 17022, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-0-300-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 172N
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 119 total, 20 in this make and model, 0 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19791110055009I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

WHILE LANDING IN GUSTY WINDS, PILOT VEERED LEFT OFF RUNWAY, HIT TETRAHEDRON, CONTINUED BACK ON RUNWAY.

## Other reports on N2723U (1)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Accident 20100530035459A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20100530035459A), May 30, 2010: Cessna 172D (N2723U), Las Cruces, NM, Destroyed. At 1500 MDT on may 30, 2010, N2723U, a Cessna 172, crashed on airport property at the Las Cruces, NM airport. The aircraft had departed on a local sight seeing…

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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