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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 172M · Ozona, TX · August 14, 2018

Date
August 14, 2018 · 08:00 local
Place
Ozona, TX
Phase of flight
Cruise/Level Flight
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N80535
Reported as
Cessna 172M
Reported engine
Lycoming 0-320 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificates
Commercial pilot, flight instructor
Pilot’s flight hours
15,321 total14,921 in this make and model69 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.

Engine lost power and the engine RPM decayed. The pilot made an emergency landing on a dirt road lined with mesquite bushes. There was standing water and soft mud on the left side of the road and the left main wheel was bogged down, pulling the airplane into a small tree, damaging the left wing tip and flap.

As the FAA filed it

ENGINE LOST POWER AND THE ENGINE RPM DECAYED. THE PILOT MADE AN EMERGENCY LANDING ON A DIRT ROAD LINED WITH MESQUITE BUSHES. THERE WAS STANDING WATER AND SOFT MUD ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE ROAD AND THE LEFT MAIN WHEEL WAS BOGGED DOWN, PULLING THE AIRPLANE INTO A SMALL TREE, DAMAGING THE LEFT WING TIP AND FLAP.