20210519010449I

Incident · Substantial damage

FAA incident report · Amazon Logistics MK27 · Pendleton, OR · May 19, 2021

Date
May 19, 2021 · 08:26 local
Place
Pendleton, OR
Airport
Eastern Oregon Regional
Phase of flight
Other, Specify
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Operator
4AMZ
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N564PA
Reported as
Amazon Logistics MK27
Reported engine
Amateur-built UNKNOWN ENG
People aboard
8
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
3,654 total41 in this make and model11 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.

During the urgent land process, SN000368 experienced a severely degraded can-bus due to faulty or damaged harnessing. Upon failure of the harnessing, the flight control computer became unable to communicate with the flight termination system (fts) radio receiver; upon this timeout, the onboard fts timeout contingency was enacted, terminating power to the propulsion system.

As the FAA filed it

DURING THE URGENT LAND PROCESS, SN000368 EXPERIENCED A SEVERELY DEGRADED CAN-BUS DUE TO FAULTY OR DAMAGED HARNESSING. UPON FAILURE OF THE HARNESSING, THE FLIGHT CONTROL COMPUTER BECAME UNABLE TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE FLIGHT TERMINATION SYSTEM (FTS) RADIO RECEIVER; UPON THIS TIMEOUT, THE ONBOARD FTS TIMEOUT CONTINGENCY WAS ENACTED, TERMINATING POWER TO THE PROPULSION SYSTEM.