# Incident 20031202035699I: Cessna 172M, St Albans, WV, December 2, 2003

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: December 2, 2003, 15:10 local time
- Place: St Albans, WV
- Phase of flight: Practice Training Manuevers
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 38.3776° N, 81.8193° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of St. Albans, WV, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=38.3776&lon=-81.8193&mi=10
- Aircraft: N13320, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N13320) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 172M (registry code 2072418, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-172m) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming 0-320 series (registry code 41508, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-0-320-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 172M
- Reported engine: LYC O320E2D
- Pilot flight hours: 385 total, 75 in this make and model, 46 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20031202035699I

## Narrative

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

(-23) PILOT REPORTED DURING AN INSTRUCTIONAL FLIGHT PERFORMING TRIM TAB STALLS AT AN ALTITUDE OF 3800 TO 4000 FEET. THE STUDENT PILOT APPLIED FULL POWER AND THE AIRCRAFT ENGINE STARTED RUNNING ROUGH AND COULD NOT MAINTAIN 1700 RPM'S. PILOT STARTED LOSING ALTITUDE AND ELECTED TO MAKE AN EMERGENCY LANDING IN A NEARBY FIELD. PILOT DECLARED AN EMERGENCY AND SQUAWKED A TRANSPONDER CODE OF 7700. STUDENT PILOT THEN WORKED THE RADIO AND ALERTED THE CRW APPROACH CONTROL OF THE ENGINE PROBLEM. AIRCRAFT LANDED WITHOUT DAMAGE AND NO INJURIES. AIRCRAFT WAS TRUCKED OUT OF THE FIELD. MAINTENANCE REVEALED THAT THE NUMBER 3 CYLINDER, INTAKE SEAT HAD COME LOOSE AND STARTED TO COME OFF OF THE INTAKE VALVE. MAINTENANCE STATED THAT THIS CYLINDER HAD ONLY 1454 HOUR TOTAL TIME SINCE A MAJOR OVERHAUL AS A COMPLETE CYLINDER ASSEMBLY.

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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