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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Blanca 17-30 · Tulsa, OK · August 23, 1998

Date
August 23, 1998 · 10:40 local
Place
Tulsa, OK
Airport
Richard Lloyd Jones Jr Airport
Phase of flight
Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N4863V
Reported as
Blanca 1730
Reported engine
Continental IO520D
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,205 total50 in this make and model100 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.

The pilot reported that the engine spooled down to idle power on his approach to rvs airport. He could not maintain enough power to make the runway: he landed on the riverbed about 1.5 miles north of the airport.

As the FAA filed it

THE PILOT REPORTED THAT THE ENGINE SPOOLED DOWN TO IDLE POWER ON HIS APPROACH TO RVS AIRPORT. HE COULD NOT MAINTAIN ENOUGH POWER TO MAKE THE RUNWAY: HE LANDED ON THE RIVERBED ABOUT 1.5 MILES NORTH OF THE AIRPORT.