# Incident 19840420021159I: Cessna 172K, Tulare, CA, April 20, 1984

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: April 20, 1984, 11:45 local time
- Place: Tulare, CA
- Airport: Mefford
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Phase of flight: Starting Engines
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 36.1566° N, 119.3266° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at MEFFORD FLD (TLR), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=36.1566&lon=-119.3266&mi=10
- Aircraft: N78669, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N78669-1997-12-06) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 172K (registry code 2072430, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-172k) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 172K
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 1,100 total, 350 in this make and model, 55 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19840420021159I

## Narrative

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

AIRCRAFT RAN INTO A CHAINLINK FENCE. WHEN PILOT STARTED THE ENGINE BY HAND CLAIMED TAIL CHAINED AND BRAKE WAS ON.

## Other reports on N78669 (1)

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

- [Accident 19920705023719A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19920705023719A), Jul 5, 1992: Cessna 172K (N78669), Agua Caliente S, CA, Substantial damage. Stalled on short final trying to recover from high sink rate. Impacted short of runway. Nosed over.

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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