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Incident

FAA incident report · Fokker F.28 MK 1000 · Richmond, VA · October 12, 1990

Date
October 12, 1990 · 21:00 local
Place
Richmond, VA
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
USAA
Aircraft
N461AU
Reported as
Fokker F28MK1000
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0

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.

Mode c showed aircraft above assigned altitude. Changing to other encoder solved problem.

As the FAA filed it

MODE C SHOWED AIRCRAFT ABOVE ASSIGNED ALTITUDE. CHANGING TO OTHER ENCODER SOLVED PROBLEM.