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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Swrngn SA227AT · Salt Lake City, UT · December 13, 1983

Date
December 13, 1983 · 15:30 local
Place
Salt Lake City, UT
Airport
International
Phase of flight
Final Approach-IFR
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Operator
SWAA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N559SA
Reported as
Swrngn SA227AT
Reported engine
AiResearch TPE3313U
People aboard
4
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
5,000 total3,000 in this make and model150 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 intake heat became inoperative. Ice dislodged from intake lip and ingested into engine turbine section.

As the FAA filed it

LEFT ENGINE INTAKE HEAT BECAME INOPERATIVE. ICE DISLODGED FROM INTAKE LIP AND INGESTED INTO ENGINE TURBINE SECTION.