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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-34-200T · Venice, FL · December 11, 1991

Date
December 11, 1991 · 13:00 local
Place
Venice, FL
Airport
Venice Municipal Airport
Phase of flight
Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N859SC
Reported as
Piper PA34200T
Reported engine
Continental TSIO360EB
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
2,700 total800 in this make and model200 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.

Smoke in cockpit. Landed safely. Battery caused fire. Appears exceeded starter engaged time overheating battery.

As the FAA filed it

SMOKE IN COCKPIT. LANDED SAFELY. BATTERY CAUSED FIRE. APPEARS EXCEEDED STARTER ENGAGED TIME OVERHEATING BATTERY.

Other reports on N859SC · 1

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