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Incident · No damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 175B · Plattsmouth, NE · August 18, 2012

Date
August 18, 2012 · 07:30 local
Place
Plattsmouth, NE
Phase of flight
Takeoff: Climb Out
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
No damage
Aircraft
N8279T
Reported as
Cessna 175B
Reported engine
Continental GO-300 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
3,002 total300 in this make and model2 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.

Pilot was completing touch and go landings with a newly installed engine cylinder. The engine seized on the fifth departure. The pilot was able to return to the airport and land uneventfully.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT WAS COMPLETING TOUCH AND GO LANDINGS WITH A NEWLY INSTALLED ENGINE CYLINDER. THE ENGINE SEIZED ON THE FIFTH DEPARTURE. THE PILOT WAS ABLE TO RETURN TO THE AIRPORT AND LAND UNEVENTFULLY.