# Incident 20191209021329I: Dehavilland DHC-8, Windsor Locks, CT, December 9, 2019

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: December 9, 2019, 15:02 local time
- Place: Windsor Locks, CT
- Airport: Bradley
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Descent
- Operating rules: Foreign air carrier (Part 129)
- Operator: NZAF
- Location: 41.9390° N, 72.6843° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at BRADLEY INTL (BDL), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=41.9390&lon=-72.6843&mi=10
- Aircraft: C-GNON (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: DEHAVILLAND DHC-8
- People aboard: 18
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Unknown or foreign certificate
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20191209021329I

## Narrative

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

ON 12/09/2019 AT 1502 LOCAL, AIR CANADA JAZZ FLIGHT JAZZ 842 DECLARED AN EMERGENCY INBOUND INTO BRADLEY AIRPORT (BDL) DUE TO A REPORTED  FIRE AND SMOKE EVENT IN THE COCKPIT. THE FIRE AND SMOKE WAS DETERMINED BY THE CREW TO BE COMING FROM THE FIRST OFFICERS COCKPIT WINDSHIELD ASSEMBLY. THE FIRE WAS EXTINGUISHED BY THE FLIGHT CREW WITH A HALON FIRE EXTINGUISHER. THE AIRCRAFT LANDED AT BDL ON RUNWAY 24 WITHOUT INCIDENT AND THEN STOPPED ON RUNWAY 24 FOR FURTHER EVALUATION. A CRACKED FIRST OFFICERS WINDSHIELD WAS REPORTED TO AIR TRAFFIC CONTR0L (ATC) AND THEN THE AIRCRAFT TAXIED TO THE ASSIGNED GATE AREA. NO INJURIES WERE REPORTED AND NO EMERGENCY EVACUATION WAS CONDUCTED.

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.

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