19881007071369I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 177B · Benton Harbor, MI · October 7, 1988

Date
October 7, 1988 · 00:30 local
Place
Benton Harbor, MI
Airport
Ross Field-Twin Cities
Phase of flight
Forced/Precautionary Landing
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N30860
Reported as
Cessna 177B
Reported engine
Lycoming O360A1F6
People aboard
4
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
250 total30 in this make and model14 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.

Engine vibrating in flight. Declared emergency and landed. Found part of propeller blade gone.

As the FAA filed it

ENGINE VIBRATING IN FLIGHT. DECLARED EMERGENCY AND LANDED. FOUND PART OF PROPELLER BLADE GONE.