19881020057489I

Incident

FAA incident report · Cessna 421C · Baltimore, MD · October 20, 1988

Date
October 20, 1988 · 11:48 local
Place
Baltimore, MD
Airport
Baltimore-Washington International
Phase of flight
Descent
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N37LC
Reported as
Cessna 421C
People aboard
4
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
4,500 total200 in this make and model150 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.

Manifold pressure drop and rough left engine. Shut down and landed. Water and sediment in main fuel filter.

As the FAA filed it

MANIFOLD PRESSURE DROP AND ROUGH LEFT ENGINE. SHUT DOWN AND LANDED. WATER AND SEDIMENT IN MAIN FUEL FILTER.