# Incident 19800228027979I: Boeing 727200, San Francisco, CA, February 28, 1980

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: February 28, 1980, 09:05 local time
- Place: San Francisco, CA
- Airport: International
- Phase of flight: Starting Engines
- Operating rules: Foreign air carrier (Part 129)
- Location: 37.7750° N, 122.4194° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of San Francisco, CA, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=37.7750&lon=-122.4194&mi=10
- Aircraft: XAIEU (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: BOEING 727200
- People aboard: 25
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 0 in this make and model, 0 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19800228027979I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

MALFUNCTION IN APU DURING START. FILLED CABIN WITH SMOKE. CAUSE UNKNOWN.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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