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Incident

FAA incident report · Cessna 172I · Brunswick, GA · April 21, 1981

Date
April 21, 1981 · 14:26 local
Place
Brunswick, GA
Airport
Jekyll Island
Phase of flight
Initial Approach-IFR
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N35743
Reported as
Cessna 172I
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
410 total375 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.

Pilot on VOR approach landed on wrong airport. Short of approach path due to passenger disturbance and low fuel.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT ON VOR APPROACH LANDED ON WRONG AIRPORT. SHORT OF APPROACH PATH DUE TO PASSENGER DISTURBANCE AND LOW FUEL.

Other reports on N35743 · 1

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