19881128069319I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-23 · West Palm Beach, FL · November 28, 1988

Date
November 28, 1988 · 09:55 local
Place
West Palm Beach, FL
Airport
Palm Beach International
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N3494B
Reported as
Piper PA23
Reported engine
Lycoming O360A1D
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
3,000 total3,000 in this make and model50 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.

After landing during taxi to ramp the left engine quit and fire erupted. Put out. Fuel hose had ruptured.

As the FAA filed it

AFTER LANDING DURING TAXI TO RAMP THE LEFT ENGINE QUIT AND FIRE ERUPTED. PUT OUT. FUEL HOSE HAD RUPTURED.