What was found
DURING LEVEL FLIGHT THE LEFT ENGINE STARTED RUNNING VERY ROUGH. ENGINE FEATHERED AND AIRCRAFT RETURNED TO AIRPORT. ENGINE UNCOWLED AND NR 5 CYLINDER HEAD WAS FOUND SEPARATED FROM BARREL.
- Difficulty date
- December 31, 2001
- Submitted
- February 1, 2002
- Operation
- General aviation
- Aircraft
- N2931L
- Make and model
- Piper PA34200T
- Aircraft serial
- 347970387
- Engine
- Cont TSIO360EB
- System (JASC)
- 8530 · Reciprocating Engine Cylinder Section
- Part
- Cylinder Head
- Part number
- 641320
- Condition
- Separated
- Location
- Lt Engine
- Part time
- 105 hours
- Stage of operation
- NR
- How discovered
- O
- Nature of condition
- R
- Precautionary procedure
- E, A
As reported to the FAA. Reports are unverified, and codes are left as the FAA publishes them.