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Incident

FAA incident report · Piper PA-23 · St Louis, MO · July 22, 1989

Date
July 22, 1989 · 09:51 local
Place
St Louis, MO
Airport
Spirit Of St Louis Airport
Phase of flight
Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N2151P
Reported as
Piper PA23
Reported engine
Lycoming O320A1A
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
18,000 total1,000 in this make and model240 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.

Oil from cowl. Oil pressure dropped to 0. Shut engine down. Landed safely. Metal oil pressure line had broken.

As the FAA filed it

OIL FROM COWL. OIL PRESSURE DROPPED TO 0. SHUT ENGINE DOWN. LANDED SAFELY. METAL OIL PRESSURE LINE HAD BROKEN.