33.2148° N, 97.1331° WPlaced by OpenAirDocs: center of Denton, TX, within about 6 miles.Open in the map
Date
October 10, 1990 · 16:00 local
Place
Denton, TX
Airport
Denton Municipal Airport
Phase of flight
Other Ground Ops
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Destroyed
Aircraft
N4BR
Reported as
Blanca 1731A
Reported engine
Continental IO520K
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
4,500 total400 in this make and model60 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.
Engine rough and backfiring as taxied to runway. On return to ramp aircraft was destroyed by fire.
As the FAA filed it
ENGINE ROUGH AND BACKFIRING AS TAXIED TO RUNWAY. ON RETURN TO RAMP AIRCRAFT WAS DESTROYED BY FIRE.