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Incident

FAA incident report · Beech C90 · San Jose, CA · May 1, 1983

Date
May 1, 1983 · 21:03 local
Place
San Jose, CA
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N71EN
Reported as
Beech C90
Reported engine
Pratt & Whitney PT6A21
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
510 total23 in this make and model50 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.

Left engine lost power. Continued to destination. Found left engine fuel control unit and fuel pump had seized.

As the FAA filed it

LEFT ENGINE LOST POWER. CONTINUED TO DESTINATION. FOUND LEFT ENGINE FUEL CONTROL UNIT AND FUEL PUMP HAD SEIZED.