19890524030019I

Incident

FAA incident report · Piper PA-31-350 · Ithaca, NY · May 24, 1989

Date
May 24, 1989 · 11:45 local
Place
Ithaca, NY
Airport
Tompkins County
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N88DW
Reported as
Piper PA31350
Reported engine
Lycoming TIO540J2BD
People aboard
4
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
4,100 total200 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.

Engine quit on rollout. Primed engine and fuel ignited. Damage confined to tail pipe.

As the FAA filed it

ENGINE QUIT ON ROLLOUT. PRIMED ENGINE AND FUEL IGNITED. DAMAGE CONFINED TO TAIL PIPE.