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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Amtrat FALCON-XP · Winters, CA · September 7, 1992

Date
September 7, 1992 · 14:00 local
Place
Winters, CA
Phase of flight
Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N123KM
Reported as
Amtrat Falconxp
Reported engine
ROTAX ROTAX503
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
35 total35 in this make and model10 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.

Engine quit in flight over lake. Ditched aircraft in lake. Appears there was a ignition system failure.

As the FAA filed it

ENGINE QUIT IN FLIGHT OVER LAKE. DITCHED AIRCRAFT IN LAKE. APPEARS THERE WAS A IGNITION SYSTEM FAILURE.