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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 210L · Bethany, OK · February 16, 1979

Date
February 16, 1979 · 14:00 local
Place
Bethany, OK
Airport
Wiley Post
Phase of flight
Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N5239V
Reported as
Cessna 210L
People aboard
4
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,200 total500 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.

Smoke from behind instrument panel. Vectors to landing. Voltage regulator failed. PNC611002-0105

As the FAA filed it

SMOKE FROM BEHIND INSTRUMENT PANEL. VECTORS TO LANDING. VOLTAGE REGULATOR FAILED. PNC611002-0105