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Incident

FAA incident report · Piper PA-30 · Santa Rosa, CA · May 27, 1987

Date
May 27, 1987 · 16:12 local
Place
Santa Rosa, CA
Airport
Sonoma County
Phase of flight
In Traffic Pattern-Circling
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N8552Y
Reported as
Piper PA30
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
526 total300 in this make and model84 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.

Right engine fuel supply exhausted on downwind. Priority landing made.

As the FAA filed it

RIGHT ENGINE FUEL SUPPLY EXHAUSTED ON DOWNWIND. PRIORITY LANDING MADE.