19800215021259I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Rkwell NA26560 · Salt Lake City, UT · February 15, 1980

Date
February 15, 1980 · 16:45 local
Place
Salt Lake City, UT
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N9NP
Reported as
Rkwell NA26560
People aboard
5
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
3,200 total1,200 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.

Loose connection in circuit breaker bus strip caused sufficient heat to ignite insulating pad.

As the FAA filed it

LOOSE CONNECTION IN CIRCUIT BREAKER BUS STRIP CAUSED SUFFICIENT HEAT TO IGNITE INSULATING PAD.