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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 175 · Rock Springs, WY · August 20, 2005

Date: August 20, 2005 · 12:00 local
Place: Rock Springs, WY
Airport: Rock Springs Sweetwater Count
Phase of flight: Normal Cruise
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N7600M
Reported as: Cessna 175
Reported engine: Continental GO300*
People aboard: 1
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 422 total110 in this make and model22 in the last 90 days

N7600MRegistered now · Cessna 175S/N 55900 · Built 1959 Airframe modelCessna 175 Engine modelContinental 0-300 seriesReciprocating

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) Number 3 connecting rod failed, penetrated engine main case causing power loss and emergency landing.

As the FAA filed it

(-23) NUMBER 3 CONNECTING ROD FAILED, PENETRATED ENGINE MAIN CASE CAUSING POWER LOSS AND EMERGENCY LANDING.