# Incident 20090807018379I: Cessna 340A, Sacramento, CA, August 7, 2009

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: August 7, 2009, 04:48 local time
- Place: Sacramento, CA
- Airport: Sacramento Executive
- Damage: No damage
- Phase of flight: Cruise/Level Flight
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 38.5129° N, 121.4933° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at SACRAMENTO EXEC (SAC), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=38.5129&lon=-121.4933&mi=10
- Aircraft: N4604N, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N4604N) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 340A (registry code 2076405, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-340a) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental TSIO-520 series (registry code 17040, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-tsio-520-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 340A
- Reported engine: CONT TSIO520*
- People aboard: 4
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 2,400 total, 100 in this make and model, 40 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20090807018379I

## Narrative

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

CESSNA 340, N4604N ENROUTE TO PALM SPRINGS, CA FROM ROSEBERG, OR EXPERIENCED AN ENGINE FAILURE AT 17,000 FT.  PILOT HEARD A LOUD NOSE FROM THE LEFT ENGINE AND NOTICED THAT THE OIL PRESSURE FOR THE LEFT ENGINE WAS READING ZERO AND THE RPM WAS DECELERATING RAPIDLY.  THE EVENT OCCURED 20 MILES EAST OF SAC.  THE PILOT DECLARED AND EMERGNECY AND RECEIVED VECTORS TO SAC.  AN EMERGENCY LANDING WAS MADE WITHOUT FURTHER INCIDENT.

## Other reports on N4604N (1)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Accident 19820128002459A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19820128002459A), Jan 28, 1982: Cessna 340CESSNA (N4604N), Sunriver, OR, Substantial damage. Pilots allowed aircraft to veer off runway and wing struck snowbank causing substantial damage.

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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