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Incident

FAA incident report · Bag JETSTM3101 · Middletown, PA · December 21, 1987

Date
December 21, 1987 · 17:50 local
Place
Middletown, PA
Airport
Harrisburg International Airport-Olmsted
Phase of flight
Descent
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Operator
VNAA
Aircraft
N843JS
Reported as
Bag JETSTM3101
People aboard
9
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
2,600 total1,600 in this make and model109 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.

Had a red pod smoke light come on unable to extinguish. Priority handling. At airport found faulty smoke detector.

As the FAA filed it

HAD A RED POD SMOKE LIGHT COME ON UNABLE TO EXTINGUISH. PRIORITY HANDLING. AT AIRPORT FOUND FAULTY SMOKE DETECTOR.