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Incident

FAA incident report · Piper PA31350 · Covington, KY · November 8, 1983

Date
November 8, 1983 · 12:00 local
Place
Covington, KY
Airport
Greater Cincinnat
Phase of flight
Climb
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Operator
COMA
Aircraft
N29TW
Reported as
Piper PA31350
Reported engine
Lycoming TIO540J2BD
People aboard
6
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
5,800 total1,600 in this make and model300 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.

Lost power on left engine. Returned to airport. Found density controller was defective. Replaced.

As the FAA filed it

LOST POWER ON LEFT ENGINE. RETURNED TO AIRPORT. FOUND DENSITY CONTROLLER WAS DEFECTIVE. REPLACED.