King Air C90 E90
Flight Crew Commercial; Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Flight Instructor
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 100; Flight Crew Total 2550; Flight Crew Type 200
Communication Breakdown; Time Pressure
Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical; Flight Deck / Cabin / Aircraft Event Smoke / Fire / Fumes / Odor
Flight Crew Landed in Emergency Condition; General Declared Emergency
Aircraft; Human Factors
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.
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.