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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech H-18 · Kona, HI · July 20, 1982

Date
July 20, 1982 · 08:15 local
Place
Kona, HI
Airport
Keahole
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N34AP
Reported as
Beech H18
Reported engine
Pratt & Whitney R985AN14B
People aboard
10
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
5,500 total2,200 in this make and model280 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.

Rough left engine on approach. Fire erupted in engine compartment on ramp. Carburetor float hinge pin plug missing.

As the FAA filed it

ROUGH LEFT ENGINE ON APPROACH. FIRE ERUPTED IN ENGINE COMPARTMENT ON RAMP. CARBURETOR FLOAT HINGE PIN PLUG MISSING.

Other reports on N34AP · 1

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