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Incident

FAA incident report · Cessna 550 · Pittsburgh, PA · May 11, 1988

Date
May 11, 1988 · 15:15 local
Place
Pittsburgh, PA
Airport
Greater Pittsburgh International
Phase of flight
Climb
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N75Z
Reported as
Cessna 550
Reported engine
Continental TSIO520NB
People aboard
8
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
7,000 total1,000 in this make and model75 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 in cabin on climb. Requested to return. Smoke cleared up. Landed at agc. Found a faulty defogger blower motor

As the FAA filed it

SMOKE IN CABIN ON CLIMB. REQUESTED TO RETURN. SMOKE CLEARED UP. LANDED AT AGC. FOUND A FAULTY DEFOGGER BLOWER MOTOR