19831114070979I

Incident

FAA incident report · Beech 9555 · Newark, NJ · November 14, 1983

Date
November 14, 1983 · 12:30 local
Place
Newark, NJ
Airport
International
Phase of flight
Go Round (Aborted VFR)
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Aircraft
N3841Q
Reported as
Beech 9555
Reported engine
Continental IO470L
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,775 total200 in this make and model180 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.

Lost all electrical power on approach. Lowered gear manually. Found battery had malfunctioned. Defective cell.

As the FAA filed it

LOST ALL ELECTRICAL POWER ON APPROACH. LOWERED GEAR MANUALLY. FOUND BATTERY HAD MALFUNCTIONED. DEFECTIVE CELL.