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Incident

FAA incident report · Doug DC-9-32 · Detroit, MI · October 17, 1994

Date
October 17, 1994 · 07:34 local
Place
Detroit, MI
Airport
Detroit Metro Wayne County
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
NWAA
Aircraft
N925US
Reported as
Doug DC932
Reported engine
Pratt & Whitney JT8D9
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
16,953 total7,254 in this make and model132 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.

Single engine taxi for takeoff. Raw fuel in NR1 tail pipe ignited. Put out by fire dept. Taxied back to gate.

As the FAA filed it

SINGLE ENGINE TAXI FOR TAKEOFF. RAW FUEL IN NR1 TAIL PIPE IGNITED. PUT OUT BY FIRE DEPT. TAXIED BACK TO GATE.