# Incident 20181108017009I: Cessna 550, North Platte, NE, November 8, 2018

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: November 8, 2018, 18:30 local time
- Place: North Platte, NE
- Airport: North Platte
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Cruise/Level Flight
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 41.1256° N, 100.7498° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of North Platte, NE, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=41.1256&lon=-100.7498&mi=10
- Aircraft: N701VV, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N701VV) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 550 (registry code 2076604, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-550) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 550
- People aboard: 5
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Airline transport
- Pilot flight hours: 10,422 total, 5,300 in this make and model, 65 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20181108017009I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

WHILE AT CRUISE ALT OF FL370, AIRCRAFT STARTED TO HAVE EXTREME VIBRATIONS. PIC CYCLED THE GEAR IN CASE THE DOOR WAS PARTIALLY OPEN CAUSING VIBRATION, NO CHANGE. RETARDED THE THROTTLES AND THE VIBRATION LESSENED. CREW ASKED ATC FOR NEAREST AIRPORT, WHICH WAS NORTH PLATTE, NE, DECLARED AN EMERGENCY AND DID AN IDLE DESCENT AS LONG AS POSSIBLE, DESCENDING THROUGH FL240 THE LEFT GENFAIL LIGHT ILLUMINATED. WHEN THE THROTTLES WERE BROUGHT FORWARD TO LEVEL OFF PRIOR TO LANDING, THE SEVERE VIBRATION RETURNED. CREW PERFORMED AN EMERGENCY LANDING AT NORTH PLATTE.  ON NOVEMBER 9, 2018, AN A&P MECHANIC INSPECTED THE AIRCRAFT AND DETERMINED INTERNAL FAILURE OF THE LEFT ENGINE GENERATOR CAUSED THE VIBRATION.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

---
OpenAirDocs.org is an independent research project of [Contrail Labs](https://contraillabs.com/). It is not affiliated with the FAA or the NTSB. Source documents are U.S. government works in the public domain.