# Incident 19890817047539I: Emb EMB120RT, Cleveland, OH, August 17, 1989

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: August 17, 1989, 11:11 local time
- Place: Cleveland, OH
- Airport: Cleveland-Hopkins International
- Phase of flight: Forced/Precautionary Landing
- Operating rules: Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
- Operator: BRIA
- Location: 41.4094° N, 81.8547° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at CLEVELAND-HOPKINS INTL (CLE), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=41.4094&lon=-81.8547&mi=10
- Aircraft: N31711, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N31711-2000-01-14) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Embraer EMB-120ER (registry code 3260203, https://openairdocs.org/model/embraer-emb-120er) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: EMB EMB120RT
- People aboard: 9
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 12,264 total, 504 in this make and model, 183 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19890817047539I

## Narrative

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

SMOKE IN CABIN AFTER TAKEOFF. RETURNED. FOUND RIGHT HAND PACK COOLING TURBINE HAD FAILED.

## Other reports on N31711 (3)

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

- [Incident 19980803036559I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19980803036559I), Aug 3, 1998: Emb EMB120 (N31711), Rochester, NY. (-5) On Monday, August 3, 1998 at 1900 local, at the completion of landing roll out on runway 4 at Rochester international airport, Rochester, new york, a…
- [Incident 19980715026229I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19980715026229I), Jul 15, 1998: Emb EMB120 (N31711), Indianapolis, IN. En route cle to ind, the crew received a flap control fault waring. An emergency was declared, the aircraft landed uneventfully at ind. Maintenance found the…
- [Incident 19961121039909I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19961121039909I), Nov 21, 1996: Emb EMB120 (N31711), Cleveland, OH. Narrative: acft ret cle w.o.I. Due to crew report of loud vibration with landing gear retracted. C2XA cle mx removed and replaced a landing gear relay box.…

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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