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Incident

FAA incident report · Piper PA23160 · Albany, NY · March 6, 1980

Date
March 6, 1980 · 12:45 local
Place
Albany, NY
Airport
Co
Phase of flight
To Init Climb(1st Pwr Reduct)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
CFMIC
Reported as
Piper PA23160
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,100 total75 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.

Violent vibration soon after lift off. Pilot returned and found 10 to 12 inches of one prop missing.

As the FAA filed it

VIOLENT VIBRATION SOON AFTER LIFT OFF. PILOT RETURNED AND FOUND 10 TO 12 INCHES OF ONE PROP MISSING.