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Incident

FAA incident report · Piper PA-23-250 · Fort Collins, CO · July 31, 1989

Date
July 31, 1989 · 20:15 local
Place
Fort Collins, CO
Airport
Christman Field Airport
Phase of flight
Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N40471
Reported as
Piper PA23250
Reported engine
Lycoming TIO540C1A
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
8,500 total300 in this make and model35 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.

Small fire in right engine. Shut down and landed. Inlet oil line to turbo leaked oil on turbo charger.

As the FAA filed it

SMALL FIRE IN RIGHT ENGINE. SHUT DOWN AND LANDED. INLET OIL LINE TO TURBO LEAKED OIL ON TURBO CHARGER.