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Incident

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28-180 · Charleston, WV · September 1, 1987

Date
September 1, 1987 · 17:53 local
Place
Charleston, WV
Airport
Yeager
Phase of flight
Forced/Precautionary Landing
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N4248T
Reported as
Piper PA28180
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
182 total8 in this make and model25 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 from instrument panel on takeoff. Returned safely. Pilot had previously spilled cleaning fluid on radios.

As the FAA filed it

SMOKE FROM INSTRUMENT PANEL ON TAKEOFF. RETURNED SAFELY. PILOT HAD PREVIOUSLY SPILLED CLEANING FLUID ON RADIOS.

Other reports on N4248T · 1

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