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Incident

FAA incident report · Gulstm AA-5A · Houston, TX · April 1, 1986

Date
April 1, 1986 · 16:50 local
Place
Houston, TX
Phase of flight
Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N9960U
Reported as
Gulstm AA5A
Reported engine
Lycoming O320E2G
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,700 total1,300 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.

Engine roughness after attempt to lean mixture. Landed in field. Cotter pin missing from mixture control cable bolt

As the FAA filed it

ENGINE ROUGHNESS AFTER ATTEMPT TO LEAN MIXTURE. LANDED IN FIELD. COTTER PIN MISSING FROM MIXTURE CONTROL CABLE BOLT