19981222042879I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Boeing 767-322 · Washington, DC · December 22, 1998

Date
December 22, 1998 · 16:20 local
Place
Washington, DC
Airport
Dulles International
Phase of flight
Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
UALA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N658UA
Reported as
Boeing 767322
Pilot’s flight hours
13,200 total

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.

(-5)Galley oven design allows paper and food from the upper tray to be sucked up into a very hot overhead vent causing the paper and food to catch on fire.

As the FAA filed it

(-5)GALLEY OVEN DESIGN ALLOWS PAPER AND FOOD FROM THE UPPER TRAY TO BE SUCKED UP INTO A VERY HOT OVERHEAD VENT CAUSING THE PAPER AND FOOD TO CATCH ON FIRE.