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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 150 · Joshua Tree, CA · December 31, 1980

Date
December 31, 1980 · 15:31 local
Place
Joshua Tree, CA
Airport
Hi Desert
Phase of flight
Final Approach
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N45MS
Reported as
Cessna 150
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
40 total40 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.

Struck power lines on final approach. Vision obscured by sun.

As the FAA filed it

STRUCK POWER LINES ON FINAL APPROACH. VISION OBSCURED BY SUN.