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Incident

FAA incident report · Cessna 172L · Louisville, KY · August 21, 1997

Date
August 21, 1997 · 09:00 local
Place
Louisville, KY
Airport
Bowman Field Airport
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N3804Q
Reported as
Cessna 172L
Reported engine
Lycoming O320H2AD
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
7,000 total60 in this make and model150 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.

Total electric fail on top undercast. Found hole over lou. Got green light power came back on. Battery wire broke.

As the FAA filed it

TOTAL ELECTRIC FAIL ON TOP UNDERCAST. FOUND HOLE OVER LOU. GOT GREEN LIGHT POWER CAME BACK ON. BATTERY WIRE BROKE.

Other reports on N3804Q · 1

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