<< >> NASA ASRS Report 1236412, January 2015

After experiencing smoke in the cockpit the flight crew of a king air made an emergency descent into the nearest suitable airport advising ATC via cell phone as they had lost all airborne communications troubleshooting the smoke.

Attributes
ACN	1236412
Time
Date	201501
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	King Air C90 E90
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Cruise
Route In Use	Direct
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	Air/Ground Communication
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Not Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Flight Instructor
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 100 Flight Crew Total 2550 Flight Crew Type 200
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical Flight Deck / Cabin / Aircraft Event Smoke / Fire / Fumes / Odor

Narrative:

In cruise flight we experienced smoke in the cockpit. We did an emergency descent into a nearby class D airport. We had no radios due to the fact that we had to kill aircraft power to get the smoke to stop. We called center via a cell phone and asked them to alert the airport tower that we were going to be entering and landing in class delta without two-way communication. We landed and exited the runway safely.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: After experiencing smoke in the cockpit the flight crew of a King Air made an emergency descent into the nearest suitable airport advising ATC via cell phone as they had lost all airborne communications troubleshooting the smoke.

Narrative: In cruise flight we experienced smoke in the cockpit. We did an emergency descent into a nearby class D airport. We had no radios due to the fact that we had to kill aircraft power to get the smoke to stop. We called center via a cell phone and asked them to alert the airport tower that we were going to be entering and landing in class delta without two-way communication. We landed and exited the runway safely.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.