# Incident 20000502016859I: Cessna 175A, Babylon, NY, May 2, 2000

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: May 2, 2000, 12:16 local time
- Place: Babylon, NY
- Phase of flight: Normal Cruise
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 40.6937° N, 73.3260° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Babylon, NY, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=40.6937&lon=-73.3260&mi=10
- Aircraft: N6888E, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N6888E) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 175A (registry code 2072504, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-175a) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental GO-300 series (registry code 17024, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-go-300-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 175A
- Reported engine: CONT GO300*
- Pilot flight hours: 8,000 total, 50 in this make and model, 30 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20000502016859I

## Narrative

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

(-23)WHILE CRUISING AT 2,200 FEET, JUST SHOUT OF THE ROBERT MOSES BEACH MONUMENT NEAR BABYLON, NY, ^PRIVACY DAT^ STATED THE AIRCRAFT'S ENGIEN BEGAN TO RUN ROUGH. ^PRIVACY DAT^ STATED HE THEN CALLED RUBLIC AIRPORT (FRG) TOWER, STATED HIS SITUATION AND TURNED NORTH TOWARDS THE AIRPORT TO LAND.  ^PRIVACY DAT^ STATED APPROXIMATELY SEVEN MILES SOUTHEAST OF REPULIC AIRPORT, THE ENGINE RPM DETERIORATED TO APPROXIMATELY 1,200 RPM AND ^PRIVACY DAT^ DECIDED HE DID NOT WANT TO RISK FLYING OVER A DENSLY POPULATED AREA.  ^PRIVACY DAT^ TURNED THE AIRCRAFT SOUTHBOUND AND LANDED THE AIRCRAFT ON VEDAR BEACH, A SECTION OF TOBAY BEACH IN THE BABYLON, MY TOWNSHIP.  ^PRIVACY DAT^ LANDED THE AIRCRAFT ON THE BEACH WITHOUT INCIDENT.  ^PRIVACY DAT^ HAD AN A&P MECHANIC WITH HIM, ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^                STATED THAT AFTER LANDING, THEY CHECKED THE CYLINDERS AND THE LEFT BANK APPEARED TO BE MUCH COOLER THAT THE RIGHT BANK OF CYLINDERS.  ^PRIVACY DAT^ SUSPECTED A PROBLEM WITH THE ENGINES VALVES.

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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