# Incident 19831108070649I: Piper PA31350, Johnson City, NY, November 8, 1983

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: November 8, 1983, 10:15 local time
- Place: Johnson City, NY
- Airport: Edwin A Link
- Phase of flight: Climb
- Operating rules: Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
- Location: 42.1253° N, 75.9634° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Johnson City, NY, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=42.1253&lon=-75.9634&mi=10
- Aircraft: N7678L, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N7678L-2000-06-26) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-31-350 (registry code 7103110, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-31-350) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA31350
- Reported engine: LYC LTIO540J2BD
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 4,000 total, 300 in this make and model, 240 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19831108070649I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

ENGINE BEGAN TO MALFUNCTION. KEPT ENGINE RUNNING TO ALTERNATE AIRPORT. # 4 CYLINDER FOUND SEPARATING FROM CRANKCASE

## Other reports on N7678L (3)

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

- [Accident 19980206002489A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19980206002489A), Feb 6, 1998: Piper PA31350 (N7678L), Nome, AK, Substantial damage. Fuel exhuastion near destination. Landed gear up on snow and ice covered shorline. (.4) the on-demand air taxi flight was nearing its destination with nine…
- [Incident 19920412013839I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19920412013839I), Apr 12, 1992: Piper PA31350 (N7678L), Fairbanks, AK, Minor damage. Lost power on right engine during climbout. Returned. Landed safely.
- [Incident 19901213061939I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19901213061939I), Dec 13, 1990: Piper PA31350 (N7678L), Kaltag, AK, Minor damage. Landed long. Unable to stop on a snow covered gravel strip. Reversed direction and halted in snowbank.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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