# Incident 19800311035699I: Piper PA31, New York, NY, March 11, 1980

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: March 11, 1980, 13:25 local time
- Place: New York, NY
- Airport: John F. Kennedy
- Phase of flight: Descent
- Operating rules: Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
- Location: 40.6399° N, 73.7787° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at JOHN F KENNEDY INTL (JFK), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=40.6399&lon=-73.7787&mi=10
- Aircraft: N6601L, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N6601L-1985-05-14) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-31 (registry code 7103103, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-31) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA31
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 2,600 total, 400 in this make and model, 0 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19800311035699I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

PILOT SHUT DOWN LEFT ENGINE. RPM WAS OSCILLATING.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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