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Incident

FAA incident report · Piper PA-30 · Great Falls, MT · April 9, 1986

Date
April 9, 1986 · 12:30 local
Place
Great Falls, MT
Airport
Great Falls International
Phase of flight
Sfl Cruise
Operating rules
Pilot school (Part 141)
Aircraft
N33MA
Reported as
Piper PA30
Reported engine
Lycoming IO320B1A
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
6,200 total350 in this make and model100 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.

Unable to restart engine after simulating engine out. Returned and found heavy carbon deposits on voltage regulator.

As the FAA filed it

UNABLE TO RESTART ENGINE AFTER SIMULATING ENGINE OUT.RETURNED AND FOUND HEAVY CARBON DEPOSITS ON VOLTAGE REGULATOR.

Other reports on N33MA · 1

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