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Incident

FAA incident report · Piper PA-32-300 · San Francisco, CA · March 18, 1979

Date
March 18, 1979 · 12:54 local
Place
San Francisco, CA
Airport
International
Phase of flight
Climb
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Aircraft
N4417X
Reported as
Piper PA32300
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
3,000 total60 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.

Zg forced landing after engine quit. Fuel selector was not positioned properly.

As the FAA filed it

ZG FORCED LANDING AFTER ENGINE QUIT. FUEL SELECTOR WAS NOT POSITIONED PROPERLY.

Other reports on N4417X · 2

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.