19781208022909I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA23 · Muncie, IN · December 8, 1978

Date
December 8, 1978 · 20:30 local
Place
Muncie, IN
Airport
Johnson
Phase of flight
Ops On Grnd From Ldg/Rtrcrft
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N12WJ
Reported as
Piper PA23
Reported engine
Lycoming IO540*
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
6,200 total1,500 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.

Engine fire after landing due to fuel leaking engine driven fuel pump, ignited by the electric fuel pump.

As the FAA filed it

ENGINE FIRE AFTER LANDING DUE TO FUEL LEAKING ENGINE DRIVEN FUEL PUMP, IGNITED BY THE ELECTRIC FUEL PUMP.