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Incident

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28-151 · Coweta, OK · September 3, 1991

Date
September 3, 1991 · 19:30 local
Place
Coweta, OK
Phase of flight
Simulated Forced Landing/Tkof
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N8500E
Reported as
Piper PA28151
Reported engine
Lycoming O320E3D
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
2,200 total200 in this make and model80 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.

Student inadvertently turned fuel selector past center on simulated emergency landing. Engine quit. Forced landing.

As the FAA filed it

STUDENT INADVERTENTLY TURNED FUEL SELECTOR PAST CENTER ON SIMULATED EMERGENCY LANDING. ENGINE QUIT. FORCED LANDING.