20250422004009I

Incident · No damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28-181 · Bowling Green, OH · April 22, 2025

Date
April 22, 2025 · 17:30 local
Place
Bowling Green, OH
Airport
Wood County
Phase of flight
Cruise/Level Flight
Operating rules
Pilot school (Part 141)
Operator
LF8S
Damage
No damage
Aircraft
N340BG
Reported as
Piper PA-28-181
Reported engine
Lycoming IO-360-B4A
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.

Experienced an in-flight occurrence inside the cabin on a dual training flight in day-vfr conditions. White smoke and a smell of burning plastic was perceived. The crew immediately followed published procedures and the smoke immediately dissipated while they returned to base safely.

As the FAA filed it

EXPERIENCED AN IN-FLIGHT OCCURRENCE INSIDE THE CABIN ON A DUAL TRAINING FLIGHT IN DAY-VFR CONDITIONS. WHITE SMOKE AND A SMELL OF BURNING PLASTIC WAS PERCEIVED. THE CREW IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWED PUBLISHED PROCEDURES AND THE SMOKE IMMEDIATELY DISSIPATED WHILE THEY RETURNED TO BASE SAFELY.