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Incident

FAA incident report · Rkwell NA26560 · St Marys, PA · June 15, 1991

Date
June 15, 1991 · 10:01 local
Place
St Marys, PA
Phase of flight
Climb
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N741RL
Reported as
Rkwell NA26560
People aboard
8
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
4,500 total4,000 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.

A faulty transponder caused pilot to appear to be off altitude assigned by ATC.

As the FAA filed it

A FAULTY TRANSPONDER CAUSED PILOT TO APPEAR TO BE OFF ALTITUDE ASSIGNED BY ATC.