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Incident

FAA incident report · Piper PA60601P · Mason City, IA · November 8, 1983

Date
November 8, 1983 · 20:30 local
Place
Mason City, IA
Airport
Mason City
Phase of flight
Climb
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N601WK
Reported as
Piper PA60601P
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,730 total103 in this make and model40 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 an alternator on climbout. Continued flight then lost the other alternator due to overload. Defective diodes.

As the FAA filed it

LOST AN ALTERNATOR ON CLIMBOUT. CONTINUED FLIGHT THEN LOST THE OTHER ALTERNATOR DUE TO OVERLOAD. DEFECTIVE DIODES.

Other reports on N601WK · 1

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