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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Dhav DHC4A · Truckee, CA · October 8, 1991

Date
October 8, 1991 · 06:20 local
Place
Truckee, CA
Airport
Truckee-Tahoe Airport
Phase of flight
Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Operator
UNIA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N900NC
Reported as
Dhav DHC4A
Reported engine
Pratt & Whitney R20007M2
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
4,000 total800 in this make and model200 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.

Vibration followed by engine fire en route. Fired bottle and landed. NR9 cylinder had blown.

As the FAA filed it

VIBRATION FOLLOWED BY ENGINE FIRE EN ROUTE. FIRED BOTTLE AND LANDED. NR9 CYLINDER HAD BLOWN.

Other reports on N900NC · 1

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