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Incident

FAA incident report · Cessna 421 · Lancaster, PA · March 23, 1987

Date
March 23, 1987 · 10:30 local
Place
Lancaster, PA
Airport
Lancaster
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N421DN
Reported as
Cessna 421
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
300 total200 in this make and model10 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.

Battery voltage low, no radio communications heard en route. Landed with ATC light signals. Circuit breaker popped.

As the FAA filed it

BATTERY VOLTAGE LOW, NO RADIO COMMUNICATIONS HEARD EN ROUTE. LANDED WITH ATC LIGHT SIGNALS. CIRCUIT BREAKER POPPED.