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Incident

FAA incident report · Boeing 757-251 · Minneapolis, MN · March 28, 1989

Date
March 28, 1989 · 10:30 local
Place
Minneapolis, MN
Airport
Minneapolis-St Paul International-Wold
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
NWAA
Aircraft
N505US
Reported as
Boeing 757251
People aboard
127
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
15,804 total464 in this make and model142 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.

Electrical odor in cockpit. Generator light on. Landed safely. Left generator control switch had overheated.

As the FAA filed it

ELECTRICAL ODOR IN COCKPIT. GENERATOR LIGHT ON. LANDED SAFELY. LEFT GENERATOR CONTROL SWITCH HAD OVERHEATED.

Other reports on N505US · 1

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