19881114067959I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Doug DC-9-51 · Detroit, MI · November 14, 1988

Date
November 14, 1988 · 22:15 local
Place
Detroit, MI
Airport
Detroit Metro Wayne County
Phase of flight
Descent
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
EALA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N677MC
Reported as
Doug DC951
People aboard
80
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
12,000 total6,000 in this make and model170 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.

Smoke in lavatory from fire in trash bin. Put out fire. Determined fire to be of suspicious origin.

As the FAA filed it

SMOKE IN LAVATORY FROM FIRE IN TRASH BIN. PUT OUT FIRE. DETERMINED FIRE TO BE OF SUSPICIOUS ORIGIN.

Other reports on N677MC · 3

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