# Incident 20120420006339I: Cessna 421B, Great Bend, KS, April 20, 2012

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: April 20, 2012, 18:57 local time
- Place: Great Bend, KS
- Airport: Great Bend Municipal Airport
- Damage: No damage
- Phase of flight: Cruise/Level Flight
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 38.3443° N, 98.8592° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at GREAT BEND MUNI (GBD), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=38.3443&lon=-98.8592&mi=10
- Aircraft: N70PD, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N70PD-2018-02-21) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 421B (registry code 2076014, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-421b) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental GTSIO-520-C (registry code 17035, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-gtsio-520-c) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 421B
- Reported engine: CONT MOTOR GTSIO-520-C
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Commercial pilot
- Pilot flight hours: 7,250 total, 200 in this make and model, 75 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20120420006339I

## Narrative

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

ON 4/20/12, THE AIRCRAFT WAS ENROUTE FROM WICHITA, KS (ICT) TO GREELY, CO (GXY). APPROXIMATELY TWENTY MINUTES INTO THE FLIGHT AND AT CRUISE, THE PILOT NOTED A TACHOMETER FLUCTUATION ON THE LEFT ENGINE. IMMEDIATELY AFTER, THE MANIFOLD PRESSURE SURGED AND A LOUD NOISE CAME FROM THE ENGINE. AT THIS TIME, THE ENGINE STOPPED. THE PILOT LANDED THE AIRCRAFT WITHOUT INCIDENT AT THE GREAT BEND, KS (GDB) AIRPORT. NO VISIBLE DAMAGE WAS NOTED TO THE AIRCRAFT.

## Other reports on N70PD (1)

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

- [Accident 19980318003699A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19980318003699A), Mar 18, 1998: Cessna 421B (N70PD), Show Low, AZ, Substantial damage. Ran off runway into mud on takeoff. Heavy snow on windshield. Had moved the H21 and cleaned off snow by FAA arrival (.4)on March 18, 1998, at 0441 hours…

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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