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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-32-260 · Maple Lake, MN · June 22, 1979

Date
June 22, 1979 · 14:25 local
Place
Maple Lake, MN
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
To Init Climb(1st Pwr Reduct)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N3979W
Reported as
Piper PA32260
Reported engine
Lycoming O540E4B5
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
310 total50 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.

Pilot lost power shortly after liftoff, had to come down. Carburetor ice is suspected

As the FAA filed it

PILOT LOST POWER SHORTLY AFTER LIFTOFF, HAD TO COME DOWN. CARBURETOR ICE IS SUSPECTED