19800920069229I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Amtr X-WIND · Macon, GA · September 20, 1980

Date
September 20, 1980 · 15:56 local
Place
Macon, GA
Phase of flight
Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N6379
Reported as
Amtr Xwind
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
10,000 total80 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.

Emergency landing after engine ran rough. Found automotive grade fuel in tanks and rusted carb heat muff.

As the FAA filed it

EMERGENCY LANDING AFTER ENGINE RAN ROUGH. FOUND AUTOMOTIVE GRADE FUEL IN TANKS AND RUSTED CARB HEAT MUFF.