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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28-140 · Falcon, CO · August 31, 1987

Date
August 31, 1987 · 05:30 local
Place
Falcon, CO
Airport
Meadow Lake
Phase of flight
Forced/Precautionary Landing
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N7308C
Reported as
Piper PA28140
People aboard
4
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
550 total300 in this make and model50 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.

Reported low power on climbout. Landed in a field off runway. Indicates carburetor icing and or rich fuel mixture.

As the FAA filed it

REPORTED LOW POWER ON CLIMBOUT. LANDED IN A FIELD OFF RUNWAY. INDICATES CARBURETOR ICING AND OR RICH FUEL MIXTURE.