# Incident 19980827028079I: Piper PA34220T, San Francisco, CA, August 27, 1998

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: August 27, 1998, 00:50 local time
- Place: San Francisco, CA
- Airport: San Francisco International
- Phase of flight: Forced Landing
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 37.6188° N, 122.3754° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at SAN FRANCISCO INTL (SFO), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=37.6188&lon=-122.3754&mi=10
- Aircraft: N8456B (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA34220T
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 13,000 total, 400 in this make and model, 300 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19980827028079I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

AFTER SEVEN HOURS INTO A FERRY FLIGHT FROM HNL TO OAK THE RH ENGINE DEVELOPED HIGH CYL HEAD TEMP AND HIGH OIL TEMP. MAP'S SPLIT. AFTER  ATTEMPTS TO LOWER TEMPERATURES FAILED PILOT FEATHERED AND SHUT DOWN RH ENGINE .25 MILES OUT OF SFO PILOT RESTARTED RH ENGINE. ON APPRAOCH TO SFO LH ENGINE FUEL EXHAUSTED. LANDED WITHOUT INCIDENT. REFUELED AND CONTINUED TO HWD. PROBLEM COULD NOT BE DUPLICATED. PILOT BELIEVES RH TURBO WASTE GATE STUCK IN INTERMEDIATE POSITION. INCIDENT STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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