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Incident

FAA incident report · Piper PA-31-350 · Philadelphia, PA · February 3, 1982

Date
February 3, 1982 · 18:20 local
Place
Philadelphia, PA
Airport
North
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Operator
APAA
Aircraft
N66920
Reported as
Piper PA31350
Reported engine
Lycoming LTIO540J2BD
People aboard
4
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
3,500 total600 in this make and model200 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.

Flight diverted when turbocharger LW12463 failed and connecting exhaust pipe split at the "y".

As the FAA filed it

FLIGHT DIVERTED WHEN TURBOCHARGER LW12463 FAILED AND CONNECTING EXHAUST PIPE SPLIT AT THE "Y".

Other reports on N66920 · 1

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