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Incident

FAA incident report · Piper PA-32RT-300 · Syracuse, NY · March 9, 1990

Date
March 9, 1990 · 14:35 local
Place
Syracuse, NY
Airport
Syracuse Hancock International
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N54SS
Reported as
Piper PA32RT300
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
7,500 total4,500 in this make and model60 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.

Total electrical failure en route. Landed at destination safely. Found a defective battery.

As the FAA filed it

TOTAL ELECTRICAL FAILURE EN ROUTE. LANDED AT DESTINATION SAFELY. FOUND A DEFECTIVE BATTERY.

Other reports on N54SS · 2

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