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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Gulfstream Aerospace G-IV · Palm Beach, FL · August 7, 2017

Date
August 7, 2017 · 08:55 local
Place
Palm Beach, FL
Airport
Palm Beach
Phase of flight
Takeoff: Climb Out
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N225DC
Reported as
Gulfstream Aerospace G-IV
Reported engine
Rolls-Royce TAY-611SER
People aboard
11
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Airline transport
Pilot’s flight hours
21,400 total

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.

Flight crew declared an emergency and initiated air turnback to Palm Beach international (pbi) due to passenger report of smoke in the passenger cabin. Crew secured cabin and galley electrical systems, smoke cleared before landing and aircraft landed without incident.

As the FAA filed it

FLIGHT CREW DECLARED AN EMERGENCY AND INITIATED AIR TURNBACK TO PALM BEACH INTERNATIONAL (PBI) DUE TO PASSENGER REPORT OF SMOKE IN THE PASSENGER CABIN. CREW SECURED CABIN AND GALLEY ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS, SMOKE CLEARED BEFORE LANDING AND AIRCRAFT LANDED WITHOUT INCIDENT.