19970517023079I

Incident

FAA incident report · Cessna 500CESSNA · Little Rock, AR · May 17, 1997

Date
May 17, 1997 · 11:30 local
Place
Little Rock, AR
Airport
Adams Field
Phase of flight
Climb
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N96FB
Reported as
Cessna 500CESSNA
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0

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 on climbout. Returned, aft lavatory circulating fan shorted. Replaced fan.

As the FAA filed it

SMOKE IN COCKPIT ON CLIMBOUT. RETURNED, AFT LAVATORY CIRCULATING FAN SHORTED. REPLACED FAN.