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Incident · No damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-31-350 · Kaunakakai, HI · January 14, 2008

Date
January 14, 2008 · 17:00 local
Place
Kaunakakai, HI
Airport
Molokai
Phase of flight
Final Approach
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Operator
5AMA
Damage
No damage
Aircraft
N830SA
Reported as
Piper PA31350
Reported engine
Lycoming TIO540J2BD
People aboard
9
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
0 total0 in this make and model0 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) Failure of connecting rod bolt, connecting rod assembly and puncture of crankcase. Loss of power in left engine.

As the FAA filed it

(-23) FAILURE OF CONNECTING ROD BOLT, CONNECTING ROD ASSEMBLY AND PUNCTURE OF CRANKCASE. LOSS OF POWER IN LEFT ENGINE.