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Incident

FAA incident report · Cessna 172K · Red Wing, MN · December 31, 1979

Date
December 31, 1979 · 14:44 local
Place
Red Wing, MN
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N79593
Reported as
Cessna 172K
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
800 total50 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.

Low on fuel VFR on top. Descended through clouds with radar vectors. Landed on a road.

As the FAA filed it

LOW ON FUEL VFR ON TOP. DESCENDED THROUGH CLOUDS WITH RADAR VECTORS. LANDED ON A ROAD.