19841123066639I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Luscom 8A · Trenton, TN · November 23, 1984

Date
November 23, 1984 · 16:20 local
Place
Trenton, TN
Phase of flight
Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N45781
Reported as
Luscom 8A
Reported engine
Continental A658
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
217 total49 in this make and model5 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.

Throttle cable housing broke, pilot could reduce but not increase throttle. Landed in muddy field and flipped over.

As the FAA filed it

THROTTLE CABLE HOUSING BROKE, PILOT COULD REDUCE BUT NOT INCREASE THROTTLE. LANDED IN MUDDY FIELD AND FLIPPED OVER.