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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28-140 · Great Falls, MT · March 25, 1992

Date
March 25, 1992 · 09:50 local
Place
Great Falls, MT
Phase of flight
Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N6784W
Reported as
Piper PA28140
Reported engine
Lycoming O320E2A
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0

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.

Power loss en route. Forced landing on highway. Found muffler interior had deteriorated and blocked exhaust flow.

As the FAA filed it

POWER LOSS EN ROUTE. FORCED LANDING ON HIGHWAY. FOUND MUFFLER INTERIOR HAD DETERIORATED AND BLOCKED EXHAUST FLOW.