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Event FTW84LA231

1984-05-12 EL PASO, Texas, United States Airport · TX04 Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3168

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 525

Year of manufacture

2026

Engine

WILLIAMS FJ44-1AP

Seats / Engines

8 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20260123

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A3608B

Registrant of record

N3168 LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Factual narrative

WHILE IN THE ARPT TRAFFIC PATTERN FOR LANDING, THE PLT EXPERIENCED AN ENGINE FAILURE AND LANDED SHORT OF THE RWY. THE ACFT COLLIDED WITH A SAND DUNE. THE PLT STATED THAT HE HAD EXPERIENCED A LOSS OF FUEL PRESSURE ON PREVIOUS FLTS BUT HAD NOT CORRECTED THE PROBLEM. THE FUEL PUMP WAS NOTED TO BE MALFUNCTIONING DURING THIS FLT. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1984_FTW84LA231.txt. Findings + structured fields enriched from FAA avall.mdb. Full investigation docket on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type or causal vocabulary (engine failure). Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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