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Incident

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28-160 · Alton/St Louis, IL · April 28, 1987

Date
April 28, 1987 · 08:10 local
Place
Alton/St Louis, IL
Airport
St Louis Regional
Phase of flight
Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N5069W
Reported as
Piper PA28160
Reported engine
Lycoming O320B2B
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
92 total50 in this make and model25 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.

Loss of engine power at cruise. Safe landing. Found the mixture control linkage had broken.

As the FAA filed it

LOSS OF ENGINE POWER AT CRUISE. SAFE LANDING. FOUND THE MIXTURE CONTROL LINKAGE HAD BROKEN.