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Incident · Destroyed

FAA incident report · Cessna 337 · Ione, CA · December 5, 1978

Date
December 5, 1978 · 09:00 local
Place
Ione, CA
Airport
Pope
Phase of flight
To Init Climb(1st Pwr Reduct)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Destroyed
Aircraft
N6042
Reported as
Cessna 337
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
12,000 total350 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 smelled smoke right after takeoff. Landed in field. Rear fuel flow meter fuel line broken.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT SMELLED SMOKE RIGHT AFTER TAKEOFF. LANDED IN FIELD. REAR FUEL FLOW METER FUEL LINE BROKEN.