# Incident 19830530037619I: Cessna 172N, New Bedford, MA, May 30, 1983

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: May 30, 1983, 08:46 local time
- Place: New Bedford, MA
- Airport: New Bedford
- Phase of flight: Final Approach-IFR
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 41.6766° N, 70.9578° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at NEW BEDFORD RGNL (EWB), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=41.6766&lon=-70.9578&mi=10
- Aircraft: N5643E, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N5643E-2007-04-17) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 172N (registry code 2072434, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-172n) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 172N
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 212 total, 105 in this make and model, 6 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19830530037619I

## Narrative

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

VFR PILOT ACCEPTED AN IFR CLEARANCE, WAS CONFUSED ON APPROACH, BECAME INVERTED IN A THUNDERSTORM. RECOVERED.LANDED.

## Other reports on N5643E (1)

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

- [Accident 19930821033719A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19930821033719A), Aug 21, 1993: Cessna 172N (N5643E), London, OH, Substantial damage. Had brake locked on touchdown. Overcontrolled trying to correct swerve. Ran off runway. Broke off nose gear.

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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