# Incident 20040803025489I: Piper PA28161, Knoxville, TN, August 3, 2004

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: August 3, 2004, 12:45 local time
- Place: Knoxville, TN
- Airport: Knoxville Downtown Island Airport
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Starting Engines
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Operator: FJPS
- Location: 35.9638° N, 83.8737° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at KNOXVILLE DOWNTOWN ISLAND (DKX), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=35.9638&lon=-83.8737&mi=10
- Aircraft: N1307H, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N1307H) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-28-161 (registry code 7102803, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-28-161) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA28161
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 950 total, 700 in this make and model, 70 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20040803025489I

## Narrative

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

(-23) DURING AN INSTRUCTIONAL FLIGHT CONDUCTING STOP AND GO LANDINGS THE AIRCRAFT ENGINE STOPPED. THE STUDENT AND THE FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR TRIED TO START THE ENGINE FOR APPROXIMATELY FIVE MINUTES. WHILE THEY WERE TRYING TO START THE ENGINE A FIRE ERUPTED FROM THE ENGINE COWLING. MECHANICS RUSHED TO THE AIRCRAFT AND EXTINGUISHED THE BLAZE. PILOT STATED HE DID NOT BELIEVE HE FLOODED THE AIRCRAFT ENGINE. THE FACETMA4 CARBURETOR, PART NUMBER 10-5217, SERIAL NUMBER DC46020 WAS DISASSEMBLED. A FRACTURE OF THE FLOAT RUNNING IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE SEAM OF THE SOLDER JOINT WAS NOTED. THE FUEL BOWL ITSELF CONTAINED FUEL AND THE FLOAT HAD SANK TO THE BOTTOM OF THE BOWL ITSELF. AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVES WERE REVIEWED AND NO OUTSTANDING AD'S WERE NOTED. AD 93-19-04 HAD BEEN COMPLETED AND KELLY AEROSPACE POWER SYSTEMS HAD OVERHAULED THIS CARBURETOR ON 6/13/03 DUE TO A PREVIOUS FIRE. CARBURETOR WAS OVERHAULED AT TACH 6072.72, 281 HOURS HAD ELAPSED SINCE LAST FIRE.

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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