19921203054019I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech C23 · Champaign-Urban, IL · December 3, 1992

Date
December 3, 1992 · 11:00 local
Place
Champaign-Urban, IL
Airport
University Of Illinois-Willar
Phase of flight
Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Operator
UC2S
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N3829X
Reported as
Beech C23
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
460 total220 in this make and model90 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.

Inflight fire on training flight. Returned to airport. Landed safely. Transponder power wire shorted to fuel line.

As the FAA filed it

INFLIGHT FIRE ON TRAINING FLIGHT. RETURNED TO AIRPORT. LANDED SAFELY. TRANSPONDER POWER WIRE SHORTED TO FUEL LINE.