# Incident 20020812024789I: Cessna 182R, Mobile, AL, August 12, 2002

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: August 12, 2002, 08:45 local time
- Place: Mobile, AL
- Airport: Bates Field
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 30.6944° N, 88.0431° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Mobile, AL, within about 7 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=30.6944&lon=-88.0431&mi=10
- Aircraft: N9355X, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N9355X) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 182R (registry code 2072731, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-182r) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental O-470 series (registry code 17026, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-o-470-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 182R
- Reported engine: CONT O470*
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 8,000 total, 200 in this make and model, 20 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20020812024789I

## Narrative

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

(-23) CIVIL AIR PATROL (CAP) AIRCRAFT STRUCK APPROACH LIGHTS WHILE LANDING ON RUNWAY 14 AT MOBILE BATE FIELD (MOB). PILOT STATED THAT THE AIRCRAFT WAS CAUGHT IN DOWNDRAFT WHILE ON FINAL APPROACH TO LANDING, POWER WAS ADDED TO BREAK THE DESCENT BUT NOT BEFORE STRIKING THE VASI LIGHTS LOCATED AT THE 1200 FT. AND 1000 FT. MARKS. PILOT ALSO STATED THAT HE HEARD A NOISE AND THOUGHT HE HAD HIT A POWERLINE. AIRCRAFT RECEIVED MINOR DAMAGE AND NO INJURIES OR FATALITIES REPORTED. ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^

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