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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Mooney M20E · Greenville, NC · December 10, 2025

Date
December 10, 2025 · 16:35 local
Place
Greenville, NC
Airport
Pitt-Greenville
Phase of flight
Cruise/Level Flight
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N3257F
Reported as
Mooney M20E
Reported engine
Lycoming I0360 series
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Airline transport
Pilot’s flight hours
2,500 total150 in this make and model36 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 cruise appears number 3 cylinder seperated from engine and began impacting multiple areas.

As the FAA filed it

DURING CRUISE APPEARS NUMBER 3 CYLINDER SEPERATED FROM ENGINE AND BEGAN IMPACTING MULTIPLE AREAS.

Other reports on N3257F · 2

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.