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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-23-250 · Bangor, ME · April 10, 1990

Date
April 10, 1990 · 19:55 local
Place
Bangor, ME
Airport
Bangor International
Phase of flight
Forced/Precautionary Landing
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Operator
BFVA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N40259
Reported as
Piper PA23250
Reported engine
Lycoming TIO540*
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
3,800 total360 in this make and model180 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.

Fire in right engine on climb. Returned. Fire out before landing. Exhaust pipe had split.

As the FAA filed it

FIRE IN RIGHT ENGINE ON CLIMB. RETURNED. FIRE OUT BEFORE LANDING. EXHAUST PIPE HAD SPLIT.

Other reports on N40259 · 3

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