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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA31350 · Carver, ME · August 9, 1979

Date
August 9, 1979 · 14:00 local
Place
Carver, ME
Phase of flight
Practice Training Manuevers
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N45052
Reported as
Piper PA31350
Reported engine
Lycoming O145B2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
703 total3 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.

Za after instructional manuevers engine failed. Gascolator showed fuel contaminated with dirt and water.

As the FAA filed it

ZA AFTER INSTRUCTIONAL MANUEVERS ENGINE FAILED. GASCOLATOR SHOWED FUEL CONTAMINATED WITH DIRT AND WATER.