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Incident

FAA incident report · Piper PA-32R-300 · Louisville, KY · May 3, 1979

Date
May 3, 1979 · 22:15 local
Place
Louisville, KY
Airport
Standiford
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N4552X
Reported as
Piper PA32R300
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
500 total70 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.

After developing electrical problem, pilot landed, had alternator belt tightened, took off again. Belt failed.

As the FAA filed it

AFTER DEVELOPING ELECTRICAL PROBLEM, PILOT LANDED, HAD ALTERNATOR BELT TIGHTENED, TOOK OFF AGAIN. BELT FAILED.

Other reports on N4552X · 1

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