19881121064239I

Incident

FAA incident report · Bag JETSTM3101 · Pittsburgh, PA · November 21, 1988

Date
November 21, 1988 · 04:30 local
Place
Pittsburgh, PA
Airport
Greater Pittsburgh International
Phase of flight
Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Operator
VNAA
Aircraft
N832JS
Reported as
Bag JETSTM3101
Reported engine
Garrett TPE3311
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
4,400 total1,400 in this make and model388 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 cockpit. Weather radar malfunctioned. Pulled breaker. Vectored to Pittsburgh. Defective radar transceiver.

As the FAA filed it

SMOKE IN COCKPIT. WEATHER RADAR MALFUNCTIONED. PULLED BREAKER. VECTORED TO PITTSBURGH. DEFECTIVE RADAR TRANSCEIVER.