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Incident

FAA incident report · Piper PA-32-300 · Columbia, SC · June 25, 1996

Date
June 25, 1996 · 13:44 local
Place
Columbia, SC
Airport
Columbia Metropolitan
Phase of flight
To Init Climb(1st Pwr Reduct)
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Operator
BKAA
Aircraft
N2351M
Reported as
Piper PA32300
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
10,000 total1,000 in this make and model75 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.

Narrative: audio panel/transistor failure caused smoke and fumes. Pilot returned immediately after take-off and landed Columbia investigation completed, bkaa was very cooperative.

As the FAA filed it

NARRATIVE: AUDIO PANEL/TRANSISTOR FAILURE CAUSED SMOKE AND FUMES. PILOT RETURNED IMMEDIATELY AFTER TAKE-OFF AND LANDED COLUMBIA INVESTIGATION COMPLETED, BKAA WAS VERY COOPERATIVE.