19861114075329I

Incident

FAA incident report · Beech B90 · Pittsburgh, PA · November 14, 1986

Date
November 14, 1986 · 08:22 local
Place
Pittsburgh, PA
Phase of flight
Descent
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N939K
Reported as
Beech B90
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
2,800 total1,000 in this make and model20 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.

Entered tca without ATC communication. Pilot was aware of malfunctioning encoding altimeter.

As the FAA filed it

ENTERED TCA WITHOUT ATC COMMUNICATION. PILOT WAS AWARE OF MALFUNCTIONING ENCODING ALTIMETER.