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Incident

FAA incident report · Piper PA32300 · Ruston, LA · August 8, 1982

Date
August 8, 1982 · 18:30 local
Place
Ruston, LA
Phase of flight
Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N4GQ
Reported as
Piper PA32300
Reported engine
Lycoming IO540K1A5
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
550 total300 in this make and model20 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.

Engine quit en route. Landed on a highway. Fuel servo diaphragm failure.

As the FAA filed it

ENGINE QUIT EN ROUTE. LANDED ON A HIGHWAY. FUEL SERVO DIAPHRAGM FAILURE.