# Incident 19930913036879I: Beech 58, Centerville, IA, September 13, 1993

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: September 13, 1993, 20:07 local time
- Place: Centerville, IA
- Airport: Centerville Municipal Airport
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Forced/Precautionary Landing
- Operating rules: Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
- Operator: JEMA
- Location: 40.6844° N, 92.9010° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at CENTERVILLE MUNI (TVK), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=40.6844&lon=-92.9010&mi=10
- Aircraft: N8140R, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N8140R-2013-05-13) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Beech 58 (registry code 1152740, https://openairdocs.org/model/beech-58) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental IO-520 series (registry code 17032, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-io-520-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: BEECH 58
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 2,790 total, 170 in this make and model, 100 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19930913036879I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

SMOKE IN COCKPIT. RETURNED. LANDED SAFELY. FOUND WIRING IN AUTOPILOT HAD BURNED AND WIRES WERE MELTED.

## Other reports on N8140R (2)

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

- [Accident 20040820024019A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20040820024019A), Aug 20, 2004: Beech 58 (N8140R), Groveton, TX, Destroyed. (-23) On August 20, 2004, at approximately 2000 CDT, a Beechcraft, N8140R, model BE-58 was destroyed during landing roll out at Trinity county airport (33R),…
- [Incident 19981014035089I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19981014035089I), Oct 14, 1998: Beech 58 (N8140R), Des Moines, IA, Minor damage. Pilot make a normal landing at dsm international airport, but during landing roll out the nose gear collapsed. Two passengers were evacuated by the pilot with…

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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