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Incident

FAA incident report · Cessna 650 · Molalla, OR · November 29, 1989

Date
November 29, 1989 · 10:47 local
Place
Molalla, OR
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Operator
GMAA
Aircraft
N273LP
Reported as
Cessna 650
People aboard
4
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
8,333 total1,341 in this make and model119 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.

Readout showed pilot climbed above assigned altitude. Determined transponder was malfunctioning.

As the FAA filed it

READOUT SHOWED PILOT CLIMBED ABOVE ASSIGNED ALTITUDE. DETERMINED TRANSPONDER WAS MALFUNCTIONING.