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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech 35-33 · Pittsburgh, PA · May 5, 1978

Date: May 5, 1978 · 18:00 local
Place: Pittsburgh, PA
Airport: Allegheny Co
Phase of flight: Final Approach
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N631V
Reported as: Beech 3533
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 8,000 total2,000 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

N631VRegistered now · Beech 35-33S/N CD-66 Airframe modelBeech 35-33 Engine modelContinental O-470 seriesReciprocating

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

Smoke filled cockpit on approach, landed safely. Replaced voltage regulator.

As the FAA filed it

SMOKE FILLED COCKPIT ON APPROACH, LANDED SAFELY. REPLACED VOLTAGE REGULATOR.