- Date
- January 8, 1992, 11:30 local (16:30 UTC)
- Place
- Fort Wayne, IN
- Injuries
- 16 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N852AWBritish Aerospace BAE-ATP
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920108003949I
- Case key
- 15322
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Probable cause
Failure of company maintenance personnel to maintain the airplane in accordance with existing service bulletins.
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
When a descent was commenced from 11,000 feet, multiple static discharges occurred on both the captain's and first officer's windshields, followed by loss of both the captain's and first officer's EFIS displays. The flight was continued to the destination on primary flight displays. Enroute a right engine fire warning indication was received. The flight landed without further incident and a subsequent examination revealed that 24 static discharge wicks were found to be defective. Several static wicks were not bonded to the airframe. Other similar bonding problems were found on the airplane. The failure of the engine fire warning system was traced to a contaminated electrical connector.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N852AW
- Reported as
- British Aerospace BAE-ATP
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 2021
- Engine
- P&W PW126A, 2,653 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Part 121
- Operator
- Air Wisconsin Airlines
- Registered owner
- Air Wisconsin Airlines
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- ORD · Chicago, IL
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- FWA · Baer Field, runway 14, 8,500 × 150 ft, concrete
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 51
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,028 total · 447 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 3 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 6,500 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 34 °F, dew point 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FWA, 1 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N852AW · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.