What happened
The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.
Student pilot overprimed engine start causing engine fire.
As the FAA filed it
STUDENT PILOT OVERPRIMED ENGINE START CAUSING ENGINE FIRE.
FAA incident report · Piper PA-28-140 · San Diego, CA · December 14, 1978
- Date
- December 14, 1978 · 08:00 local
- Place
- San Diego, CA
- Airport
- Montgomery
- Phase of flight
- Starting Engines
- Operating rules
- General operating rules (Part 91)
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Aircraft
- N8883N
- Reported as
- Piper PA28140
- Fatal injuries
- 0
- Pilot’s flight hours
- 41 total1 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days
N8883NRegistered now · Piper PA-28-140Airframe modelPiper PA-28-140Engine modelLycoming 0-320 series
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.