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Incident

FAA incident report · Piper PA31P · Austin, TX · May 3, 1988

Date
May 3, 1988 · 17:59 local
Place
Austin, TX
Airport
Robert Mueller Municipal
Phase of flight
Forced/Precautionary Landing
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N66808
Reported as
Piper PA31P
Reported engine
Lycoming TIGO541E1A
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
900 total30 in this make and model180 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.

Lost power on left engine after takeoff. Returned. Found a faulty throttle control for left engine.

As the FAA filed it

LOST POWER ON LEFT ENGINE AFTER TAKEOFF. RETURNED. FOUND A FAULTY THROTTLE CONTROL FOR LEFT ENGINE.