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Incident

FAA incident report · Rkwell 500B · Buffalo, NY · February 9, 1982

Date
February 9, 1982 · 04:12 local
Place
Buffalo, NY
Airport
International
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Operator
CCTA
Aircraft
N471A
Reported as
Rkwell 500B
Reported engine
Lycoming IO540B1A5
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
2,400 total150 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.

Throttles froze at cruise power. Emergency landed on unplowed runway. Had flown in heavy snow, clogged intakes.

As the FAA filed it

THROTTLES FROZE AT CRUISE POWER. EMERGENCY LANDED ON UNPLOWED RUNWAY. HAD FLOWN IN HEAVY SNOW, CLOGGED INTAKES.