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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Waco GXE · Oakes, ND · July 16, 1989

Date
July 16, 1989
Place
Oakes, ND
Phase of flight
Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N5132
Reported as
Waco GXE
Reported engine
WRIGHT OX5
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
5,000 total4 in this make and model300 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.

Unable to maintain full engine power. Landed in field and nosed up. Engine induction tube elbow cracked.

As the FAA filed it

UNABLE TO MAINTAIN FULL ENGINE POWER. LANDED IN FIELD AND NOSED UP. ENGINE INDUCTION TUBE ELBOW CRACKED.