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Incident

FAA incident report · Cessna UC78 · Kalamazoo, MI · December 2, 1979

Date
December 2, 1979 · 15:41 local
Place
Kalamazoo, MI
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N52391
Reported as
Cessna UC78
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
12,000 total45 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.

Both engines quit en route due to fuel rust contamination from left fuel system. Tanks had been purged, lines not.

As the FAA filed it

BOTH ENGINES QUIT EN ROUTE DUE TO FUEL RUST CONTAMINATION FROM LEFT FUEL SYSTEM. TANKS HAD BEEN PURGED, LINES NOT.