20080118000259I

Incident · No damage

FAA incident report · Piagio P180 · Beaumont, TX · January 18, 2008

Date
January 18, 2008 · 21:44 local
Place
Beaumont, TX
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
No damage
Aircraft
N156SL
Reported as
Piagio P180
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
3,142 total446 in this make and model125 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) Crew on a repositioning flight from hobby airport (hou) to lexington, KY smelled what they described as electrical burning or arcing (no smoke or flames seen). They declared an emergency and landed at Beaumont, tex. (Bpt) without further incident.

As the FAA filed it

(-23) CREW ON A REPOSITIONING FLIGHT FROM HOBBY AIRPORT (HOU) TO LEXINGTON, KY SMELLED WHAT THEY DESCRIBED AS ELECTRICAL BURNING OR ARCING (NO SMOKE OR FLAMES SEEN). THEY DECLARED AN EMERGENCY AND LANDED AT BEAUMONT, TEX. (BPT) WITHOUT FURTHER INCIDENT.