# Incident 19800423046539I: Piper PA31350, Danvers, MA, April 23, 1980

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: April 23, 1980, 19:22 local time
- Place: Danvers, MA
- Airport: Beverly
- Phase of flight: Normal Cruise
- Operating rules: Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
- Operator: DEAA
- Location: 42.5841° N, 70.9161° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at BEVERLY RGNL (BVY), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=42.5841&lon=-70.9161&mi=10
- Aircraft: N78DE, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N78DE-1994-05-24) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-31-350 (registry code 7103110, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-31-350) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA31350
- People aboard: 5
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 7,700 total, 1,000 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/19800423046539I

## Narrative

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

ROUGH ENGINE. PROBLEM CORRECTED BY REPLACING SPARK PLUGS.

## Other reports on N78DE (2)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Accident 19940303003649A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19940303003649A), Mar 3, 1994: Piper PA31350 (N78DE), Frazier Park, CA, Destroyed, 1 fatal. En route at night VFR flew into trees on a mountainside. Failed to use vigilance and ATC ensaw altitude alerting.
- [Incident 19891005053159I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19891005053159I), Oct 5, 1989: Piper PA31350 (N78DE), Reno, NV, Minor damage. Left engine problem after takeoff. Returned. Fire in cowl while taxiing. NR6 piston had hole burned in it.

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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