FAA incident report · Piper PA 31P 350 · Houston, TX · December 21, 1988
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.
The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.
Rough left engine on climb to cruise. P lead wire shorting out on magneto cap. Grounding magneto intermittenly.
ROUGH LEFT ENGINE ON CLIMB TO CRUISE. P LEAD WIRE SHORTING OUT ON MAGNETO CAP. GROUNDING MAGNETO INTERMITTENLY.