19961002037719I

Incident · Substantial damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-24-180 · Onawa, IA · October 2, 1996

Date
October 2, 1996 · 18:00 local
Place
Onawa, IA
Airport
Onawa Municipal Airport
Phase of flight
Forced/Precautionary Landing
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N6266P
Reported as
Piper PA24180
Reported engine
Lycoming O360A1A
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
247 total

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 on climb at 300 ft AGL landed soybean field. Possible carb ice. Suspect low fuel caused unporting.

As the FAA filed it

ENGINE QUIT ON CLIMB AT 300 FT AGL LANDED SOYBEAN FIELD. POSSIBLE CARB ICE. SUSPECT LOW FUEL CAUSED UNPORTING.