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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech E18S · Pontiac, MI · December 14, 1985

Date
December 14, 1985 · 15:25 local
Place
Pontiac, MI
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N900WP
Reported as
Beech E18S
Reported engine
Pratt & Whitney R985AN14B
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
7,722 total2,337 in this make and model270 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.

Cabin heater became inoperative when wiring supplied ignition to fuel vapors causing unnoticed in flight fire.

As the FAA filed it

CABIN HEATER BECAME INOPERATIVE WHEN WIRING SUPPLIED IGNITION TO FUEL VAPORS CAUSING UNNOTICED IN FLIGHT FIRE.

Other reports on N900WP · 1

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