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Accident · Substantial damage

FAA accident report · Piper PA-22-108 · Auburn, WA · April 19, 1991

Date
April 19, 1991 · 21:20 local
Place
Auburn, WA
Airport
Auburn Municipal Airport
Phase of flight
Forced Landing
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N5167Z
Reported as
Piper PA22108
Reported engine
Lycoming O235C1B
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
177 total12 in this make and model52 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 quit turning base while switching tanks. Crash landed,fuel selector modified. May have turned off by error.

As the FAA filed it

ENGINE QUIT TURNING BASE WHILE SWITCHING TANKS. CRASH LANDED,FUEL SELECTOR MODIFIED. MAY HAVE TURNED OFF BY ERROR.