20091018051579I

Incident · No damage

FAA incident report · Eclipse Avi EA500 · October 18, 2009

Date
October 18, 2009 · 14:59 local
Phase of flight
Descent
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
No damage
Aircraft
N778VW
Reported as
Eclipse Avi EA500
Reported engine
Pratt & Whitney Canada PW610F-A
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Airline transport
Pilot’s flight hours
6,000 total315 in this make and model100 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.

Avionics system failure due to moisture condensation in the aircraft static system.

As the FAA filed it

AVIONICS SYSTEM FAILURE DUE TO MOISTURE CONDENSATION IN THE AIRCRAFT STATIC SYSTEM.