19890423027119I

Incident

FAA incident report · Boeing 727-200 · Fayetteville, NC · April 23, 1989

Date
April 23, 1989 · 11:00 local
Place
Fayetteville, NC
Airport
Fayetteville Municipal-Grannis Fld
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
PAIA
Aircraft
N740US
Reported as
Boeing 727200
Reported engine
Pratt & Whitney JT8*
People aboard
84
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
10,500 total6,000 in this make and model

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. Evacuated. Strong winds caused problems with doors and slides. Oil leak in APU caused the smoke.

As the FAA filed it

SMOKE IN CABIN. EVACUATED. STRONG WINDS CAUSED PROBLEMS WITH DOORS AND SLIDES. OIL LEAK IN APU CAUSED THE SMOKE.