20020301005159I

Incident

FAA incident report · Piper PA-12 · Wilmington, NC · March 1, 2002

Date
March 1, 2002 · 09:12 local
Place
Wilmington, NC
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N33B
Reported as
Piper PA12
Reported engine
Lycoming O235*
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
11,000 total500 in this make and model25 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.

(-23) The rubber gasket sealing the air cleaner to the air intake housing had become dislodged and was protruding into, and restricting the air flow into the carburetor, causing the loss of RPM.

As the FAA filed it

(-23) THE RUBBER GASKET SEALING THE AIR CLEANER TO THE AIR INTAKE HOUSING HAD BECOME DISLODGED AND WAS PROTRUDING INTO, AND RESTRICTING THE AIR FLOW INTO THE CARBURETOR, CAUSING THE LOSS OF RPM.