Narrative:

The engine abruptly lost power during cruise. I established best glide and reversed course to proceed to the closest field. I declared an emergency with approach and stated my intentions and also that I had a partial power loss. I switched to advisory frequency when over the field and made an uneventful landing. I called approach immediately after landing to terminate the emergency. The cause of the power loss was a broken fuel injection line from the distribution spider to the fuel injector at the #4 cylinder. The engine is a lycoming io-360a1a with approximately 500 hours since major overhaul.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: The pilot of a Vans RV-8 reported power loss in cruise flight. He declared an emergency and diverted to the nearest suitable airport; where maintenance inspection revealed a broken fuel injection line to the low time Lycoming IO-360A1A.

Narrative: The engine abruptly lost power during cruise. I established best glide and reversed course to proceed to the closest field. I declared an emergency with Approach and stated my intentions and also that I had a partial power loss. I switched to advisory frequency when over the field and made an uneventful landing. I called Approach immediately after landing to terminate the emergency. The cause of the power loss was a broken fuel injection line from the distribution spider to the fuel injector at the #4 cylinder. The engine is a Lycoming IO-360A1A with approximately 500 hours since major overhaul.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.