# Incident 19900308011139I: Piper PA28140, Rochester, NY, March 8, 1990

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: March 8, 1990, 10:10 local time
- Place: Rochester, NY
- Airport: Greater Rochester Internationa
- Phase of flight: Forced/Precautionary Landing
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 43.1548° N, 77.6156° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Rochester, NY, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=43.1548&lon=-77.6156&mi=10
- Aircraft: N5996U, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N5996U-2014-02-14) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-28-140 (registry code 7102802, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-28-140) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming 0-320 series (registry code 41508, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-0-320-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA28140
- Reported engine: LYC O320E2A
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 200 total, 100 in this make and model, 5 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19900308011139I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

ROUGH ENGINE ON CLIMB. RETURNED. LANDED SAFELY. RIGHT MAGNETO DISTRIBUTOR DRIVE GEAR HAD FAILED.

## Other reports on N5996U (2)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Incident 19940913034629I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19940913034629I), Sep 13, 1994: Piper PA28140 (N5996U), Rochester, NY, Minor damage. During taxi to ramp engine caught fire.
- [Incident 19931126048379I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19931126048379I), Nov 26, 1993: Piper PA28140 (N5996U), Rochester, NY. Loss of RPM on climb returned to airport. Landed safely. Found venturi broke loose in the carburator.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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