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Incident

FAA incident report · Boeing 80A · Medicine Bow, WY · April 27, 1978

Date
April 27, 1978 · 18:45 local
Place
Medicine Bow, WY
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N128Z
Reported as
Boeing 80A
People aboard
5
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
14,000 total2,500 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.

Fuel entering cockpit near fuel gauge. Engine shut down. Diaphram in fuel gauge ruptured.

As the FAA filed it

FUEL ENTERING COCKPIT NEAR FUEL GAUGE. ENGINE SHUT DOWN. DIAPHRAM IN FUEL GAUGE RUPTURED.