# Incident 20150417004869I: Cessna 180, Buffalo, MN, April 17, 2015

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: April 17, 2015, 14:00 local time
- Place: Buffalo, MN
- Airport: Buffalo Municipal
- Damage: No damage
- Phase of flight: Takeoff: Climb Out
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 45.1588° N, 93.8433° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at BUFFALO MUNI (CFE), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=45.1588&lon=-93.8433&mi=10
- Aircraft: N1729F, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N1729F) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 180 (registry code 2072602, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-180) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental O-470 series (registry code 17026, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-o-470-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 180
- Reported engine: CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Airline transport
- Pilot flight hours: 3,000 total, 40 in this make and model, 300 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20150417004869I

## Narrative

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

SHORTLY AFTER DEPARTING A PRIVATE AIRSTRIP APPROXIMATELY 4 MILES WEST OF BUFFALO, MN, THE PILOT REPORTED THAT THE ENGINE STARTED TO LOSE POWER, RPM'S DROPPED AND EGT'S ON ALL CYLINDERS WERE RISING.  THE ENGINE THEN QUIT.  THE PILOT STATED THAT HE THEN PUMPED THE THROTTLE AND WAS ABLE TO OBTAIN SHORT BURSTS OF POWER AND THEN THE ENGINE QUIT AGAIN.  THE PILOT WAS ABLE TO LAND THE AIRCRAFT IN A PLOWED FIELD WITH NO APPARENT DAMAGE TO THE AIRCRAFT.  UPON REMOVING AND DISASSEMBLING THE CARBURETOR, A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF DEBRIS WAS FOUND INSIDE THE CARBURETOR BOWL.

## Other reports on N1729F (1)

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

- [Accident 20081019849419A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20081019849419A), Oct 19, 2008: Cessna 180 (N1729F), Denton, TX, Destroyed. (-23) [privacy data omitted] stated that on 10/19/2008, he was PIC on N1729F and was practicing touch and goes during very early morning (nighttime) time…

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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