20210207000889I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 180 · El Cajon, CA · February 7, 2021

Date
February 7, 2021 · 14:30 local
Place
El Cajon, CA
Airport
Gillespie Field
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N9172C
Reported as
Cessna 180
Reported engine
Continental O-470 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
1,600 total49 in this make and model9 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.

After landing on a flight from deer valley Arizona to Gillespie Field California, the aircraft caught a gust of wind and the pilot over corrected causing the aircraft to perform a ground loop.

As the FAA filed it

AFTER LANDING ON A FLIGHT FROM DEER VALLEY ARIZONA TO GILLESPIE FIELD CALIFORNIA, THE AIRCRAFT CAUGHT A GUST OF WIND AND THE PILOT OVER CORRECTED CAUSING THE AIRCRAFT TO PERFORM A GROUND LOOP.

Other reports on N9172C · 2

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