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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA28140 · Albuquerque, NM · March 11, 1983

Date
March 11, 1983 · 17:50 local
Place
Albuquerque, NM
Airport
International
Phase of flight
Starting Engines
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N43340
Reported as
Piper PA28140
Reported engine
Lycoming O320*
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
43 total3 in this make and model8 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 stopped on taxiway. Attempts to restart resulted in carburetor overflow and an engine fire.

As the FAA filed it

ENGINE STOPPED ON TAXIWAY. ATTEMPTS TO RESTART RESULTED IN CARBURETOR OVERFLOW AND AN ENGINE FIRE.