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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Rkwell NA26565 · Dallas, TX · August 23, 1988

Date
August 23, 1988 · 09:55 local
Place
Dallas, TX
Airport
Dallas Love Field
Phase of flight
Descent
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N23BX
Reported as
Rkwell NA26565
Reported engine
Garrett TFE731*
People aboard
6
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
13,000 total600 in this make and model100 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.

Generator malfunction when lower half of engine cowling tore off inflight below hinge brackets. Cause unknown.

As the FAA filed it

GENERATOR MALFUNCTION WHEN LOWER HALF OF ENGINE COWLING TORE OFF INFLIGHT BELOW HINGE BRACKETS. CAUSE UNKNOWN.