# Incident 19881221067309I: Piper PA31P350, Houston, TX, December 21, 1988

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: December 21, 1988, 10:30 local time
- Place: Houston, TX
- Airport: William P Hobby
- Phase of flight: Climb
- Operating rules: Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
- Operator: GUQA
- Location: 29.6458° N, 95.2772° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at WILLIAM P HOBBY (HOU), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=29.6458&lon=-95.2772&mi=10
- Aircraft: N9210Y, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N9210Y) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA 31P 350 (registry code 7103111, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-31p-350) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming TI0-540 series (registry code 41533, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-ti0-540-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA31P350
- Reported engine: LYC TIO540V2AD
- People aboard: 3
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 2,223 total, 233 in this make and model, 153 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19881221067309I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

ROUGH LEFT ENGINE ON CLIMB TO CRUISE. P LEAD WIRE SHORTING OUT ON MAGNETO CAP. GROUNDING MAGNETO INTERMITTENLY.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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