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Incident

FAA incident report · Lear 31A · Morristown, NJ · March 13, 2001

Date: March 13, 2001 · 18:15 local
Place: Morristown, NJ
Airport: Morristown Municipal Airport
Phase of flight: Climb
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft: N70AE
Reported as: Lear 31A
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 2,000 in this make and model110 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.

(-23)N70AE a Lear 31 departed teterboro for hagerstown, Maryland. Pilot reported smoke in cockpit, aircraft diverted to mmu and landed without further incident. Crew and passenger evacuated the aircraft on the airport. Conversation with the pilot, privacy data omitted revealed the following: smoke was coming out from under the glare shield by the windshield. A short was found in the overlay lighting panel. Replaced panel. Ops checked ok.

As the FAA filed it

(-23)N70AE A LEAR 31 DEPARTED TETERBORO FOR HAGERSTOWN, MARYLAND. PILOT REPORTED SMOKE IN COCKPIT, AIRCRAFT DIVERTED TO MMU AND LANDED WITHOUT FURTHER INCIDENT. CREW AND PASSENGER EVACUATED THE AIRCRAFT ON THE AIRPORT. CONVERSATION WITH THE PILOT, ^PRIVACY DATA ^ REVEALED THE FOLLOWING: SMOKE WAS COMING OUT FROM UNDER THE GLARE SHIELD BY THE WINDSHIELD. A SHORT WAS FOUND IN THE OVERLAY LIGHTING PANEL. REPLACED PANEL. OPS CHECKED OK.