ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 292129
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| Date: | Thursday 29 June 2006 |
| Time: | 11:09 LT |
| Type: |  Piper PA-32-300 |
| Owner/operator: | |
| Registration: | N70746 |
| MSN: | 32-40521 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1968 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 4455 hours |
| Engine model: | Lycoming IO-540 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Midland, Texas -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Midland Airpark, TX (MDD/KMDD) |
| Baytown Airport, TX (HPY/KHPY) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Shortly after departure, the airplane's engine lost partial power, and the 604-hour private pilot elected to perform an emergency landing to a road. While landing, the airplane's rotating beacon collided with an unmarked static transmission line and the left wing tip impacted a mailbox. An examination of the engine revealed that the right magneto had experienced an internal failure which resulted in its misfiring. The right magneto had been installed eight years previously and had accumulated approximately 469 hours since it was last rebuilt. A service bulletin previously issued by the magneto manufacturer stated, the "magneto must be overhauled or replaced at the expiration of five years since the date of original manufacture or last overhaul...without regard to accumulated operating hours."
Probable Cause: The partial loss of engine power as result of the maintenance personnel's failure to comply with a manufacture's Service Bulletin (SB). A contributing factor was the lack of suitable terrain for the forced landing.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB DFW06LA172
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 28 January 2016 | N70746 | BERT air ambulance | 0 | Punta Gorda airstrip |  |
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Revision history:
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| 08-Oct-2022 14:51 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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