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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 310P · Long Beach, CA · September 29, 2012

Date
September 29, 2012 · 18:35 local
Place
Long Beach, CA
Airport
Long Beach /Daugherty Field/
Phase of flight
Landing: Approach
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N247EF
Reported as
Cessna 310P
Reported engine
Continental IO-470VO
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
1,680 total1,250 in this make and model10 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 reported to tower that the right engine was spewing oil and running rough while on a 3 mile final for Long Beach runway 30. Long Beach tower declared the emergency and cleared the aircraft to land. Pilot taxied the airplane back to its hangar under its own power.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT REPORTED TO TOWER THAT THE RIGHT ENGINE WAS SPEWING OIL AND RUNNING ROUGH WHILE ON A 3 MILE FINAL FOR LONG BEACH RUNWAY 30. LONG BEACH TOWER DECLARED THE EMERGENCY AND CLEARED THE AIRCRAFT TO LAND. PILOT TAXIED THE AIRPLANE BACK TO ITS HANGAR UNDER ITS OWN POWER.