# Incident 19960304009759I: Dorner DO328100, Billings, MT, March 4, 1996

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: March 4, 1996, 11:37 local time
- Place: Billings, MT
- Airport: Billings Logan International
- Phase of flight: Starting Engines
- Operating rules: Air carrier (Part 121)
- Operator: QXEA
- Location: 45.8078° N, 108.5435° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at BILLINGS LOGAN INTL (BIL), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=45.8078&lon=-108.5435&mi=10
- Aircraft: N328PH (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: DORNER DO328100
- People aboard: 3
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 5,800 total, 115 in this make and model, 121 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19960304009759I

## Narrative

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

NARRATIVE: PILOT REPORTED THAT ON 3-4-96 AT 1137AM AFTER PASSENGERS HAD BOARDED THE AIRCRAFT AND CREW WAS PREPARING FOR DEPARTURE: THAT SPARKS, SMOKE AND FLAMES WERE NOTICED COMING FROM THE NON-ESSENTIAL BUS #2 CIRCUIT BREAKER PANEL, NEXT TO THE FIRST OFFICER'S SEAT, OF THE DORNIER 328, N328PH. THE CREW SHUT DOWN THE POWER OF THE NON-ESSENTIAL BUS AND DEPLANED THE PASSENGERS INTO THE TERMINAL AREA. AFTER DEPLANING THE PASSENGERS THE CREW SHUT OFF ALL AIRCRAFT POWER WHICH STOPPED THE FIRE AND PREVENTED IT FROM SPREADING. SUBSEQUENT INVESTIGATION SHOWED THAT A LIGHTING PANEL SUBASSEMBLY OF THE CIRCUIT BREAKER PANEL P/N 11-1262-150 HAD FAILED CAUSING SMOKE AND FLAMES IN THE COCKPIT. THIS DISCREPANCY WAS CORRECTED BY REMOVING AND REPLACING THE CIRCUIT BREAKER PANEL. THIS INVESTIGATION IS CLOSED.

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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