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Incident

FAA incident report · Doug DC-6A · Matthew Town, Bahamas · January 13, 1990

Date
January 13, 1990 · 16:40 local
Place
Matthew Town, Bahamas
Airport
Great Inagua
Phase of flight
Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
TALA
Aircraft
N872TA
Reported as
Doug DC6A
Reported engine
Pratt & Whitney R2800*
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
5,000 total3,000 in this make and model250 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.

NR2 engine backfiring at cruise. NR3 engine had same landing. Precautionary landing. Suspect cylinders on engine.

As the FAA filed it

NR2 ENGINE BACKFIRING AT CRUISE. NR3 ENGINE HAD SAME LANDING. PRECAUTIONARY LANDING. SUSPECT CYLINDERS ON ENGINE.