19871120075669I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 177B · Fort Seward, CA · November 20, 1987

Date
November 20, 1987 · 09:10 local
Place
Fort Seward, CA
Airport
Private
Phase of flight
Go Round (Aborted VFR)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N30744
Reported as
Cessna 177B
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
850 total100 in this make and model25 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.

Attempting a go around. Landing gear struck the top of a steel gate. Aborted. Landed straight ahead in field.

As the FAA filed it

ATTEMPTING A GO AROUND. LANDING GEAR STRUCK THE TOP OF A STEEL GATE. ABORTED. LANDED STRAIGHT AHEAD IN FIELD.