# Incident 19890328012599I: Boeing 757251, Minneapolis, MN, March 28, 1989

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: March 28, 1989, 10:30 local time
- Place: Minneapolis, MN
- Airport: Minneapolis-St Paul International-Wold
- Phase of flight: Normal Cruise
- Operating rules: Air carrier (Part 121)
- Operator: NWAA
- Location: 44.9800° N, 93.2638° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Minneapolis, MN, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=44.9800&lon=-93.2638&mi=10
- Aircraft: N505US, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N505US-2010-05-25) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Boeing 757-251 (registry code 1384970, https://openairdocs.org/model/boeing-757-251) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: BOEING 757251
- People aboard: 127
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 15,804 total, 464 in this make and model, 142 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19890328012599I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

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.

- [Incident 19950716023009I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19950716023009I), Jul 16, 1995: Boeing 737300 (N505US), Rochester, NY. Flap problem on approach. Went around. Cleared problem. Landed ok. Maintenance cleared discrepancy.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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