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Incident

FAA incident report · Cessna 421B · Charleston, WV · February 3, 1978

Date
February 3, 1978 · 17:20 local
Place
Charleston, WV
Airport
Kanawha
Phase of flight
Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N100EF
Reported as
Cessna 421B
Reported engine
Continental GTSIO520H
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
4,800 total1,000 in this make and model0 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.

Shortly after changing fuel tanks one engine became rough and was shut down. Had been topped off with jet fuel.

As the FAA filed it

SHORTLY AFTER CHANGING FUEL TANKS ONE ENGINE BECAME ROUGH AND WAS SHUT DOWN. HAD BEEN TOPPED OFF WITH JET FUEL.