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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 172P · Ft Pierce, FL · February 10, 2012

Date
February 10, 2012 · 14:50 local
Place
Ft Pierce, FL
Airport
Ft. Pierce
Phase of flight
Cruise/Level Flight
Operator
BEJS
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N51021
Reported as
Cessna 172P
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Other 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.

During level flight aircraft started smoking with an acid smell in the cockpit. All gage readings were eratic and PIC made an emergency landing at Ft Pierce airport.

As the FAA filed it

DURING LEVEL FLIGHT AIRCRAFT STARTED SMOKING WITH AN ACID SMELL IN THE COCKPIT. ALL GAGE READINGS WERE ERATIC AND PIC MADE AN EMERGENCY LANDING AT FT PIERCE AIRPORT.