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Incident

FAA incident report · Beech E-55 · Los Angeles, CA · August 16, 1979

Date
August 16, 1979 · 07:15 local
Place
Los Angeles, CA
Airport
International
Phase of flight
Climb
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N116CM
Reported as
Beech E55
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
3,100 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.

Pilot lost all communications ability and had arcing under control panel. Pilot diverted ver.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT LOST ALL COMMUNICATIONS ABILITY AND HAD ARCING UNDER CONTROL PANEL. PILOT DIVERTED VER.