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Incident · Substantial damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 421C · Weslaco, TX · September 30, 2013

Date
September 30, 2013 · 17:00 local
Place
Weslaco, TX
Airport
Mid Valley
Phase of flight
Takeoff: Climb Out
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N20SK
Reported as
Cessna 421C
Reported engine
Teledyne Continental GTSI0-520N
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificates
Airline transport, flight instructor
Pilot’s flight hours
8,120 total388 in this make and model35 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.

Right engine quit while turning to heading, shorlty followed by left engine, landed in field 1/2 mile from aiport. Aircraft was vandalized, position of controls at time event in question.

As the FAA filed it

RIGHT ENGINE QUIT WHILE TURNING TO HEADING, SHORLTY FOLLOWED BY LEFT ENGINE, LANDED IN FIELD 1/2 MILE FROM AIPORT. AIRCRAFT WAS VANDALIZED, POSITION OF CONTROLS AT TIME EVENT IN QUESTION.