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Incident

FAA incident report · Cessna 180A · Eveleth, MN · May 29, 2005

Date
May 29, 2005 · 11:47 local
Place
Eveleth, MN
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N3893
Reported as
Cessna 180A
Reported engine
Continental O470K
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
2,250 total15 in this make and model10 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.

(-23) Aircraft departed new richmond, WI with one of the gas caps not attached. The engine quit and the pilot made an emergency landing in a rock quarry filled with water.

As the FAA filed it

(-23) AIRCRAFT DEPARTED NEW RICHMOND, WI WITH ONE OF THE GAS CAPS NOT ATTACHED. THE ENGINE QUIT AND THE PILOT MADE AN EMERGENCY LANDING IN A ROCK QUARRY FILLED WITH WATER.