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Incident

FAA incident report · Cessna 2105 · Newark, NJ · May 15, 1978

Date
May 15, 1978 · 16:00 local
Place
Newark, NJ
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Final Approach
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N8305Z
Reported as
Cessna 2105
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
879 total600 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

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.

Experienced an electrical failure on approach due to a faulty generator and discharged battery.

As the FAA filed it

EXPERIENCED AN ELECTRICAL FAILURE ON APPROACH DUE TO A FAULTY GENERATOR AND DISCHARGED BATTERY.