19790427025129I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-34-200 · Hyannis, MA · April 27, 1979

Date
April 27, 1979 · 11:25 local
Place
Hyannis, MA
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
To Init Climb(1st Pwr Reduct)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N15412
Reported as
Piper PA34200
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
15,000 total162 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.

Complete electrical failure right after takeoff, pilot returned. Problem caused by an alternator failure.

As the FAA filed it

COMPLETE ELECTRICAL FAILURE RIGHT AFTER TAKEOFF, PILOT RETURNED. PROBLEM CAUSED BY AN ALTERNATOR FAILURE.

Other reports on N15412 · 3

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