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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech 200BEECH · Albuquerque, NM · March 1, 1979

Date
March 1, 1979 · 12:00 local
Place
Albuquerque, NM
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N55AE
Reported as
Beech 200BEECH
Reported engine
Pratt & Whitney PT6A41
People aboard
4
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
4,700 total700 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 quit in flight. Forward power turbine disc lost nearly all its blades.

As the FAA filed it

ENGINE QUIT IN FLIGHT. FORWARD POWER TURBINE DISC LOST NEARLY ALL ITS BLADES.