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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 180A · Eagle River, AK · September 3, 1983

Date: September 3, 1983 · 15:54 local
Place: Eagle River, AK
Phase of flight: Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N7092
Reported as: Cessna 180A
Reported engine: Continental O470K
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 1,100 total40 in this make and model60 in the last 90 days

N7092Registration cancelled Mar 25, 2013 · Cessna 180AS/N 50248 · Built 1958 Airframe modelCessna 180A Engine modelContinental O-470 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.

A float struck a floating island on water landing. The floatplane flipped over and sank.

As the FAA filed it

A FLOAT STRUCK A FLOATING ISLAND ON WATER LANDING. THE FLOATPLANE FLIPPED OVER AND SANK.