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Incident

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28-181 · Indianapolis, IN · November 18, 1978

Date
November 18, 1978 · 15:30 local
Place
Indianapolis, IN
Airport
International
Phase of flight
To Init Climb(1st Pwr Reduct)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N5389F
Reported as
Piper PA28181
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
275 total35 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.

Pilot declared an emergency and made a precautionary landing due to a rough engine.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT DECLARED AN EMERGENCY AND MADE A PRECAUTIONARY LANDING DUE TO A ROUGH ENGINE.