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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28-161 · Ramona, CA · May 7, 1991

Date
May 7, 1991 · 18:45 local
Place
Ramona, CA
Airport
Ramona Airport
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N2171D
Reported as
Piper PA28161
Reported engine
Lycoming O320D3G
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,300 total600 in this make and model270 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 fire after landing. Used fire extinguisher. Suspects alternator and associated wiring was source of fire.

As the FAA filed it

ENGINE FIRE AFTER LANDING. USED FIRE EXTINGUISHER. SUSPECTS ALTERNATOR AND ASSOCIATED WIRING WAS SOURCE OF FIRE.

Other reports on N2171D · 3

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