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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Mooney M20F · Fort Collins, CO · May 14, 1992

Date
May 14, 1992 · 13:00 local
Place
Fort Collins, CO
Airport
Fort Collins-Loveland Municipal Arp
Phase of flight
In Traffic Pattern-Circling
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N3505H
Reported as
Mooney M20F
Reported engine
Lycoming IO360A1A
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
290 total290 in this make and model3 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.

Smoke in aircraft on approach. Landed safely. Oil return line had cracked and sprayed oil on exhaust.

As the FAA filed it

SMOKE IN AIRCRAFT ON APPROACH. LANDED SAFELY. OIL RETURN LINE HAD CRACKED AND SPRAYED OIL ON EXHAUST.