19861022065689I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Amtr Drifter · Muncie, IN · October 22, 1986

Date
October 22, 1986 · 11:38 local
Place
Muncie, IN
Airport
Delaware Co
Phase of flight
To Init Climb(1st Pwr Reduct)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N169JJ
Reported as
Amtr Drifter
Reported engine
ROTAX ROTAX503
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
120 total70 in this make and model35 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.

On initial climb, the engine lost power. Landed in field with a fouled sparkplug. Invalid airworthiness certificate

As the FAA filed it

ON INITIAL CLIMB, THE ENGINE LOST POWER. LANDED IN FIELD WITH A FOULED SPARKPLUG. INVALID AIRWORTHINESS CERTIFICATE