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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 180 · Lake Anna, VA · March 2, 1992

Date: March 2, 1992 · 15:30 local
Place: Lake Anna, VA
Phase of flight: To Aborted (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N180Z
Reported as: Cessna 180
People aboard: 2
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 5,814 total700 in this make and model42 in the last 90 days

N180ZRegistered now · Cessna 180S/N 30828 · Built 1954 Airframe modelCessna 180 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.

Pumped water from floats while drifting towards a bridge. Takeoff attempted. Aborted. Aircraft nosed over.

As the FAA filed it

PUMPED WATER FROM FLOATS WHILE DRIFTING TOWARDS A BRIDGE. TAKEOFF ATTEMPTED. ABORTED. AIRCRAFT NOSED OVER.