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Incident

FAA incident report · Boeing 727-231 · St Louis, MO · August 12, 1983

Date
August 12, 1983 · 18:30 local
Place
St Louis, MO
Airport
Lambert Int'L
Phase of flight
Starting Engines
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
TWAA
Aircraft
N12304
Reported as
Boeing 727231
People aboard
141
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
0 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry 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.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

Starting engine on push back. APU operating. Smoke filled cabin. Aileron unit hydraulic leak. Entered APU intake.

As the FAA filed it

STARTING ENGINE ON PUSH BACK. APU OPERATING. SMOKE FILLED CABIN. AILERON UNIT HYDRAULIC LEAK. ENTERED APU INTAKE.

Other reports on N12304 · 8

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.