19941216045119I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 550 · Harrisburg, PA · December 16, 1994

Date
December 16, 1994 · 07:50 local
Place
Harrisburg, PA
Airport
Capital City
Phase of flight
Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N550VW
Reported as
Cessna 550
Reported engine
Pratt & Whitney JT15D4
People aboard
4
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
5,550 total650 in this make and model150 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 after departure. Declared emergency. Returned. No fire. Smoke believed from air cycle machine.

As the FAA filed it

SMOKE IN COCKPIT AFTER DEPARTURE. DECLARED EMERGENCY. RETURNED. NO FIRE. SMOKE BELIEVED FROM AIR CYCLE MACHINE.