19880811057659I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Doug DC-9-31 · Memphis, TN · August 11, 1988

Date
August 11, 1988 · 16:45 local
Place
Memphis, TN
Airport
Memphis International
Phase of flight
Climb
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
NWAA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N919RW
Reported as
Doug DC931
People aboard
74
Fatal injuries
0

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.

Smoke in cabin coming from overhead in cabin. A failed bracket allowed transformers to contact a wire bundle.

As the FAA filed it

SMOKE IN CABIN COMING FROM OVERHEAD IN CABIN. A FAILED BRACKET ALLOWED TRANSFORMERS TO CONTACT A WIRE BUNDLE.

Other reports on N919RW · 2

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