19880106012029I

Incident

FAA incident report · Stbros SD3-30 · Middletown, PA · January 6, 1988

Date
January 6, 1988 · 20:10 local
Place
Middletown, PA
Airport
Harrisburg International Airport-Olmsted
Phase of flight
Descent
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Operator
PCAA
Aircraft
N304CA
Reported as
Stbros SD330
Reported engine
Pratt & Whitney PT6A45R
People aboard
9
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
10,538 total3,685 in this make and model193 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.

Could not hold powerplant within torque limits. Engine shut down. Found propeller governor had an internal failure.

As the FAA filed it

COULD NOT HOLD POWERPLANT WITHIN TORQUE LIMITS. ENGINE SHUT DOWN. FOUND PROPELLER GOVERNOR HAD AN INTERNAL FAILURE.

Other reports on N304CA · 5

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