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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 172H · Philipsburg, PA · August 5, 1997

Date: August 5, 1997 · 15:00 local
Place: Philipsburg, PA
Airport: Mid State Airport
Phase of flight: Descent
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N3838R
Reported as: Cessna 172H
Reported engine: Continental O300D
People aboard: 1
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 300 total250 in this make and model50 in the last 90 days

N3838RRegistered now · Cessna 172HS/N 17255338 · Built 1966 Airframe modelCessna 172H Engine modelContinental 0-300 seriesReciprocating

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.

Rough engine descent to airport. Grinding noise. Shutdown. Landed pasture. NR1 cylinder blown due piston failure.

As the FAA filed it

ROUGH ENGINE DESCENT TO AIRPORT. GRINDING NOISE. SHUTDOWN. LANDED PASTURE. NR1 CYLINDER BLOWN DUE PISTON FAILURE.