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Incident

FAA incident report · Bag JETSTM3101 · Fort Smith, AR · April 2, 1990

Date
April 2, 1990 · 07:11 local
Place
Fort Smith, AR
Airport
Fort Smith Municipal
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Operator
REXA
Aircraft
N308PX
Reported as
Bag JETSTM3101
People aboard
15
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
4,520 total2,040 in this make and model279 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.

Left engine fire warning while taxiing. Fired bottle and evacuated. Found faulty fire detection loop.

As the FAA filed it

LEFT ENGINE FIRE WARNING WHILE TAXIING. FIRED BOTTLE AND EVACUATED. FOUND FAULTY FIRE DETECTION LOOP.