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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech 99 · Boston, ME · July 8, 1980

Date
July 8, 1980 · 20:30 local
Place
Boston, ME
Airport
Logan International
Phase of flight
Descent
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Operator
BHAA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N100WP
NTSB investigation
NTSBMKC80IA052
Reported as
Beech 99
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
2,800 total1,400 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 and fire detected when an instrument light switch was turned on, subsided when switch was turned off.

As the FAA filed it

SMOKE AND FIRE DETECTED WHEN AN INSTRUMENT LIGHT SWITCH WAS TURNED ON, SUBSIDED WHEN SWITCH WAS TURNED OFF.

NTSB investigation

The NTSB’s investigation of this event, with its probable cause and findings. Matched to this report by N-number and date.