NASA · Aviation Safety Reporting System
PA-44 flight instructor reported a sudden loss of power on the left engine during cruise. The flight diverted to the closest airport where a safe landing was executed.
What is ASRS?
The Aviation Safety Reporting System is NASA's voluntary, confidential, non- punitive incident-reporting system, established 1976. Pilots, controllers, dispatchers, and maintenance technicians file reports describing safety- relevant events. NASA de-identifies every report before adding it to the public database. Reports are not investigated by NASA, the FAA, or the NTSB — they represent the reporter's perspective.
Pilot narrative
Verbatim from the de-identified NASA record. First-person account by the
reporter. NASA strips identifying details (names, company, specific time);
anonymization placeholders are ZZZ,
X, Y.
We were flying a cross country from ZZZ to ZZZ1. As we were cruising 10 miles NE of ZZZ3 we experienced a sudden lost of power with 16 inches on the manifold pressure in the left engine. We ran through the emergency engine failure in flight checklist and troubleshooted. We were unable to restore full power to the engine. We contacted ZZZ4 TRACON and informed them of the situation as we decided to divert to ZZZ3 because it was the closest airport. We landed runway XX in ZZZ3 and upon landing the engine completely failed. We were able to vacate the runway using one engine. We entered the ramp where we shut the engine down and parked the aircraft. We inspected the aircraft and noticed there was a fuel leak. The aircraft was squawked for maintenance action.
NASA classification — Anomalies
- Aircraft Equipment Problem
- Conflict
- Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural
- Ground Event / Encounter
- Inflight Event / Encounter
NASA classification — Assessments
- Contributing Factors / Situations
- Aircraft · Human Factors
- Primary Problem
- Aircraft
ASRS reports are voluntarily submitted, de-identified by NASA, and represent the reporter's perspective. The presence of reports on a topic cannot be used to infer prevalence in the National Airspace System. The authoritative source is the NASA ASRS Database Online at asrs.arc.nasa.gov ↗.