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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Airbus A320-211 · Buffalo, NY · April 11, 1994

Date
April 11, 1994 · 11:59 local
Place
Buffalo, NY
Airport
Greater Buffalo International
Phase of flight
Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
NWAA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N319US
Reported as
Airbus A320211
People aboard
61
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
11,000 total2,500 in this make and model180 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.

Electrical wire insulation burning smell in cockpit. Diverted to Buffalo. Found defective avionics extract fan.

As the FAA filed it

ELECTRICAL WIRE INSULATION BURNING SMELL IN COCKPIT. DIVERTED TO BUFFALO. FOUND DEFECTIVE AVIONICS EXTRACT FAN.