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Incident

FAA incident report · Beech B-60 · Des Moines, IA · September 21, 1979

Date
September 21, 1979 · 23:15 local
Place
Des Moines, IA
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N23588
Reported as
Beech B60
Reported engine
Lycoming TIO541E1C4
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
10,500 total300 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.

Engine rough in flight, discovered broken valve in one cylinder.

As the FAA filed it

ENGINE ROUGH IN FLIGHT, DISCOVERED BROKEN VALVE IN ONE CYLINDER.