# Incident 19801213090209I: Piper PA28161, Long Beach, CA, December 13, 1980

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: December 13, 1980, 19:08 local time
- Place: Long Beach, CA
- Airport: Daugherty
- Phase of flight: Final Approach
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 33.7670° N, 118.1892° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Long Beach, CA, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=33.7670&lon=-118.1892&mi=10
- Aircraft: N30119, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N30119-2009-03-31) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-28-161 (registry code 7102803, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-28-161) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Amateur-built UNKNOWN ENG (registry code 99999, https://openairdocs.org/engine/amateur-built-unknown-eng) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA28161
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 400 total, 150 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/19801213090209I

## Narrative

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

ZB PILOT MADE APPROACH TO WRONG AIRPORT.  LANDED.

## Other reports on N30119 (1)

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

- [Accident 19951103046369A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19951103046369A), Nov 3, 1995: Piper PA28161 (N30119), Salt Lake City, UT, Destroyed. Smoke from engine on 3rd start try. Tried again. No start. Saw small fire. No extinguisher. Indicates flooded engine

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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