19841231073519I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech C-45H · Chicago, IL · December 31, 1984

Date
December 31, 1984 · 11:34 local
Place
Chicago, IL
Airport
Midway
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N4999E
Reported as
Beech C45H
Reported engine
Pratt & Whitney R985AN14B
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
2,600 total150 in this make and model300 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.

Electrical arcing behind instrument panel. Returned to airport. Wire to heater circuit breaker broken and arcing.

As the FAA filed it

ELECTRICAL ARCING BEHIND INSTRUMENT PANEL. RETURNED TO AIRPORT. WIRE TO HEATER CIRCUIT BREAKER BROKEN AND ARCING.

Other reports on N4999E · 3

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.