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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna R172K · Rangely, CO · November 9, 1981

Date
November 9, 1981 · 10:14 local
Place
Rangely, CO
Phase of flight
Simulated Forced Landing/Tkof
Operating rules
Pilot school (Part 141)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N736BN
Reported as
Cessna R172K
Reported engine
Continental IO360G
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
780 total150 in this make and model550 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 and broke and electrical power line while practicing emergency forced landings in an open field.

As the FAA filed it

STRUCK AND BROKE AND ELECTRICAL POWER LINE WHILE PRACTICING EMERGENCY FORCED LANDINGS IN AN OPEN FIELD.