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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Buckeye DREAM MACHINE 00 · Bethel, ME · May 25, 2016

Date
May 25, 2016 · 19:24 local
Place
Bethel, ME
Phase of flight
Cruise/Level Flight
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N3024
Reported as
Buckeye Dream Machine 00
Reported engine
ROTAX 582
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificates
Commercial pilot, flight instructor

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 lost engine power for a few seconds then came back on, this happened two or three times then engine quit. Landed in a river, aircraft fliped over and was submerged.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT LOST ENGINE POWER FOR A FEW SECONDS THEN CAME BACK ON, THIS HAPPENED TWO OR THREE TIMES THEN ENGINE QUIT. LANDED IN A RIVER, AIRCRAFT FLIPED OVER AND WAS SUBMERGED.