# Incident 19790320009429I: Aerosp 262ANORD, Pittsburgh, PA, March 20, 1979

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: March 20, 1979, 08:15 local time
- Place: Pittsburgh, PA
- Airport: International
- Phase of flight: Normal Cruise
- Operating rules: Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
- Location: 40.4406° N, 79.9959° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Pittsburgh, PA, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=40.4406&lon=-79.9959&mi=10
- Aircraft: N275A, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N275A-2001-07-12) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Aerospatiale NORD 262A (registry code 8680698, https://openairdocs.org/model/aerospatiale-nord-262a) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: AEROSP 262ANORD
- People aboard: 6
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 0 in this make and model, 0 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19790320009429I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

SMOKE IN COCKPIT. REPLACED FLIGHT DIRECTOR AMPLIFIER.

## Other reports on N275A (1)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Incident 19880109002859I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19880109002859I), Jan 9, 1988: Aerosp 262ANORD (N275A), Newport News, VA. Received no indication of landing gear up and locked. Returned. Found frozen up lock switch.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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