20071217831209I

Incident · No damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-34-220T · Marshall, MN · December 17, 2007

Date
December 17, 2007 · 11:30 local
Place
Marshall, MN
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
No damage
Aircraft
N74WT
Reported as
Piper PA34220T
Reported engine
Continental TSIO360KB
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
3,970 total1,250 in this make and model150 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) Aircraft was in cruise flight when the left engine's oil pressure light illuminated. Oil pressure gauge was dropping into yellow arc and pilot performed a precautionary shutdown of that engine. Flight was continued to destination airport where aircraft was landed without incident.

As the FAA filed it

(-23) AIRCRAFT WAS IN CRUISE FLIGHT WHEN THE LEFT ENGINE'S OIL PRESSURE LIGHT ILLUMINATED. OIL PRESSURE GAUGE WAS DROPPING INTO YELLOW ARC AND PILOT PERFORMED A PRECAUTIONARY SHUTDOWN OF THAT ENGINE. FLIGHT WAS CONTINUED TO DESTINATION AIRPORT WHERE AIRCRAFT WAS LANDED WITHOUT INCIDENT.