# Incident 19990212012979I: Boeing 75723APF, Quito, EU, February 12, 1999

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: February 12, 1999, 08:00 local time
- Place: Quito, EU
- Airport: Quito/Mariscal Sucre
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: To Aborted (Fixed Wing)
- Operating rules: Air carrier (Part 121)
- Operator: CLCA
- Aircraft: N571CA, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N571CA-1999-09-09) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Boeing 757-23APF (registry code 1384966, https://openairdocs.org/model/boeing-757-23apf) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: BOEING 75723APF
- Reported engine: RROYCE RB211535E4
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19990212012979I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

AIRCRAFT STARTED ITS TAKE OFF ROLL. AT APPROX. 60 KTS. LEFT ENGINE STARTED TO COMPRESSOR STALL. AIRCRAFT STARTED TO YAW LEFT OF RUNWAY. ABORTED T/O AT 75KTS. SHUT DOWN AND PULLED / ACTIVARTED DISCHARGE FIRE SWITCHS. EVACUATED AIRCRAFT BY EMERGENCY DOOR ROPE. AT APPROXIMATELY 0010 UTC, JANUARY 12,1999 (1910,1/11/99 EST), CHALLENGE AIR CARGO'S FLIGHT 096 WAS DEPARTING MARISCAL SUCRE INT. AIRPORT, QUITO, ECUADOR (UIO) BOUND FOR CALI, COLUMBIA (CAL). ON TAKE OFF AT APPROXIMATELY 75 KNOTS THE AIRCRAFT BEGAN TO YAW TO THE LEFT. THE CREW INITIATED ABORT PROCEDURES. THE AIRCRAFT CLEARED THE RUNWAY, NUMBER 1 ENGINE WAS SHUT DOWN. AT THAT TIME THE TOWER NOTIFIED THE CREW THAT THERE WAS FIRE COMING OUT OF THE LEFT ENGINE. THECREW INITIATED EVACUATION PROCEDURES BY SHUTTING DOWN THE REMAINING ENGINE, DISCHARGED BOTH FIRE BOTTLES FOR ENGINE NO. 1 AND PULLED THE APU SHUT DOWN HANDLE. AIRPORT FIRE EQUIPMENT WAS DISPATCHED AND NO FIRE WAS NOTED. THERE WAS NO REPORTED INJURIES NOR SUBSTANTIAL AIRCRAFT DAMAGE. AIRCRAFT REMAINS OUT OF SERVICE WAITING EVALUATION OF THE NO. 1 ENGINE. THE ECUADORIAN CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITIES WERE NOTIFIED AT 0200 UTC, 1/12/99, CHALLENGE AIR CARGO WAS NOTIFIED AT0022   UTC,1/12/99, PMI ADVISED 0120 UTC, 1/12/99 AND THE U.S. NTSB WAS NOTIFIED AT 1400 UTC,1/12/99. MR. RHODES OF THE SOUTHERN REGION COM CENTER WAS NOTIFIED BY MIAMI FSDO 19 AT 1500 ITC, 1/12/99. THIS INCIDENT REQUIRED NTSB NOTICICATION DUE TO THE USE OF THE EMERGENCY EGRESS SYSTEM BY FLIGHT CREW. (NTSB 830, SUBPART B, PARA 930.5 (A)(7)IV) NTSB INCIDENT FORMS 8020.23 AND 8020.9 WILL BE COMPLETED AND SUBMITTED AS REQUIRED.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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