# Incident 20010426012419I: Cessna 172M, Bowling Green, MO, April 26, 2001

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: April 26, 2001, 16:20 local time
- Place: Bowling Green, MO
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Unauth Low Level Opns
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 39.3448° N, 91.2025° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Bowling Green, MO, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=39.3448&lon=-91.2025&mi=10
- Aircraft: N4380R, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N4380R-2012-11-21) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 172M (registry code 2072418, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-172m) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming 0-320 series (registry code 41508, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-0-320-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 172M
- Reported engine: LYC O320*
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 72 total, 10 in this make and model, 6 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20010426012419I

## Narrative

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

(-23) PILOT WAS PERFORMING A VMC PLEASURE FLIGHT IN RURAL AREA. DURING FLIGHT, PILOT INTENTIONALLY ALLOWED AIRCRAFT TO DESCEND TO APPROXIMATELY TWO TO THREE HUNDRED FEET ABOVE GROUND LEVEL (AGL). WHILE FLYING PARALLEL TO ROAD, PILOT STATED HE WAS UNAWARE THAT AIRCRAFT HAD DESCENDED TO BELOW ONE HUNDRED FEET AGL.  AIRCRAFT CAME IN CONTACT WITH POWERLINES WHICH RAN PERPENDICULAR TO RAOD.  PILOT WAS ABLE TO FLY DAMAGED AIRCRAFT BACK TO BASE OF DEPARTURE (APPROXIMATELY FIVE MILES).

## Other reports on N4380R (1)

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

- [Accident 20011117033049A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20011117033049A), Nov 17, 2001: Cessna 172M (N4380R), Vandalia, MO, No damage. (-23) On November 17, 2001 Mr. Craig m. long was practicing takeoffs and landings at a private grass strip in Vandalia, MO. On the third landing the nose…

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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