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Incident

FAA incident report · Piper PA-22-135 · Seminole, TX · April 13, 1991

Date
April 13, 1991 · 20:00 local
Place
Seminole, TX
Phase of flight
Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N3573A
Reported as
Piper PA22135
Reported engine
Lycoming O290*
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
185 total80 in this make and model26 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.

Rough engine when fuel tanks switched. Engine quit. Landed in field. Sand in fuel strainer and carburetor.

As the FAA filed it

ROUGH ENGINE WHEN FUEL TANKS SWITCHED. ENGINE QUIT. LANDED IN FIELD. SAND IN FUEL STRAINER AND CARBURETOR.