- Date
- June 26, 1989, 18:16 local (22:16 UTC)
- Place
- Baltimore, MD
- Injuries
- 13 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N849JSBritish Aerospace 3101
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 26, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890626033029I
- Case key
- 11477
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Probable cause
Failure of maintenance personnel to properly torque the power connection at the air conditioning system fuse.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
After touchdown, a passenger informed the flt crew of smoke and sparks coming from the panel behind the captain's seat. The electrical system and engine were shut down and passengers were deplaned as a precaution. Inspection revealed a short at the air conditioning system power cable/fuse connection at the station 130 electrical panel. The panel was scheduled to be inspected every 3600 hours. Total acft time was 2117 hours. The air conditioning system was a post-production add-on system.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N849JS
- Reported as
- British Aerospace 3101
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 812
- Airframe hours
- 2,119
- Engine
- Garrett TPE-331, 940 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Jetstream International, doing business as Piedmont Commuter
- Registered owner
- Usair Leasing And Services,Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- BDR · Bridgeport, CT
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- BWI · Baltimore/Washington, runway 15, 9,519 × 150 ft, concrete
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 41
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 7,800 total · 2,200 in this make and model · 7,425 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 88 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.