# Incident 19871216078409I: Cessna 340CESSNA, Kalispell, MT, December 16, 1987

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: December 16, 1987, 10:30 local time
- Place: Kalispell, MT
- Airport: Glacier Park International
- Phase of flight: Climb
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 48.3105° N, 114.2560° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at GLACIER PARK INTL (GPI), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=48.3105&lon=-114.2560&mi=10
- Aircraft: N2637Y, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N2637Y-2012-09-06) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 340 (registry code 2076404, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-340) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 340CESSNA
- Reported engine: CONT TSIO520N
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 7,200 total, 20 in this make and model, 120 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19871216078409I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

PROPELLER WOULD NOT HOLD RPM. ENGINE SHUTDOWN. UNFEATHERING ACCMULATOR FITTING HAD SPLIT. FITTING OVER TORQUED.

## Other reports on N2637Y (1)

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

- [Accident 20080112844419A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20080112844419A), Jan 12, 2008: Cessna 340CESSNA (N2637Y), Port Clinton, OH, Destroyed, 4 fatal. (-23) An aviation safety inspector from the cle FSDO witnessed this aircraft on down wind approximately 800 AGL 1.2 miles east of Port Clinton, Ohio airport…

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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