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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-23-250 · Morristown, NJ · October 30, 1991

Date
October 30, 1991 · 21:15 local
Place
Morristown, NJ
Airport
Morristown Municipal Airport
Phase of flight
Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N53BK
Reported as
Piper PA23250
Reported engine
Lycoming IO540*
People aboard
4
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,350 total500 in this make and model20 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.

Right engine fire inside of cowling. Landed safely. Exhaust crossover pipe slip joint had separated.

As the FAA filed it

RIGHT ENGINE FIRE INSIDE OF COWLING. LANDED SAFELY. EXHAUST CROSSOVER PIPE SLIP JOINT HAD SEPARATED.