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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Doug DC1010 · Chicago, IL · July 18, 1991

Date
July 18, 1991 · 16:40 local
Place
Chicago, IL
Airport
Chicago-O Hare International
Phase of flight
Other Ground Ops
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
AALA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N168AA
Reported as
Doug DC1010
People aboard
188
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.

Fire from APU unit while parked. Fired bottles. APU shut down. Placared and returned to service.

As the FAA filed it

FIRE FROM APU UNIT WHILE PARKED. FIRED BOTTLES. APU SHUT DOWN. PLACARED AND RETURNED TO SERVICE.