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Incident

FAA incident report · Piper PA-32-300 · Allentown, PA · July 8, 1978

Date
July 8, 1978 · 14:00 local
Place
Allentown, PA
Airport
Bethlehem Easton
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N4089R
Reported as
Piper PA32300
People aboard
5
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
325 total10 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.

Alternator stopped working due to insufficient belt tension. Bolt for alternator tension adjust found stripped.

As the FAA filed it

ALTERNATOR STOPPED WORKING DUE TO INSUFFICIENT BELT TENSION. BOLT FOR ALTERNATOR TENSION ADJUST FOUND STRIPPED.

Other reports on N4089R · 1

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