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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 150L · Santa Paula, CA · August 4, 1983

Date
August 4, 1983 · 07:50 local
Place
Santa Paula, CA
Airport
Santa Paula
Phase of flight
Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N5212Q
Reported as
Cessna 150L
Reported engine
Continental O200*
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
362 total260 in this make and model17 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.

Fog covered airport. Elected to land on a river sand bar. Nose gear hit a hole and broke off.

As the FAA filed it

FOG COVERED AIRPORT. ELECTED TO LAND ON A RIVER SAND BAR. NOSE GEAR HIT A HOLE AND BROKE OFF.