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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Rkwell NA26540 · Meridian, MS · February 24, 1984

Date
February 24, 1984 · 08:40 local
Place
Meridian, MS
Airport
Key Field
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N78BC
Reported as
Rkwell NA26540
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
0 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 in cockpit. Determined the cabin overhead florescent had shorted causing the 10 amp breaker to trip.

As the FAA filed it

SMOKE IN COCKPIT. DETERMINED THE CABIN OVERHEAD FLORESCENT HAD SHORTED CAUSING THE 10 AMP BREAKER TO TRIP.