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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 172F · Corsicana, TX · August 30, 1982

Date: August 30, 1982 · 00:00 local
Place: Corsicana, TX
Phase of flight: Takeoff Ground Roll
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N7960U
Reported as: Cessna 172F
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 2,800 total250 in this make and model75 in the last 90 days

N7960URegistration cancelled Mar 18, 2005 · Cessna 172FS/N 17251960 · Built 1964 Airframe modelCessna 172F Engine modelContinental 0-300 seriesReciprocating

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.

Landed in a open field at night. Became disoriented on takeoff, veered into a fence and mesquite trees.

As the FAA filed it

LANDED IN A OPEN FIELD AT NIGHT. BECAME DISORIENTED ON TAKEOFF, VEERED INTO A FENCE AND MESQUITE TREES.