# Incident 19890418029399I: Cessna 421C, Gainesville, FL, April 18, 1989

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: April 18, 1989, 18:37 local time
- Place: Gainesville, FL
- Airport: Gainesville Regional Airport
- Phase of flight: Climb
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 29.6900° N, 82.2718° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at GAINESVILLE RGNL (GNV), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=29.6900&lon=-82.2718&mi=10
- Aircraft: N71GC (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 421C
- Reported engine: CONT GTSIO520L
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 6,500 total, 75 in this make and model, 100 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19890418029399I

## Narrative

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

AIRCRAFT CLIMBED ABOVE ASSIGNED ALTITUDE. FOUND ENCODER TO BE ERRATIC AND MALFUNCTIONING.

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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