# Incident 19990617022269I: Boeing 7272J0, St Louis, MO, June 17, 1999

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: June 17, 1999, 04:45 local time
- Place: St Louis, MO
- Airport: Lambert-St Louis International
- Phase of flight: Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
- Operating rules: Air carrier (Part 121)
- Operator: P9RA
- Location: 38.6273° N, 90.1979° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of St. Louis, MO, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=38.6273&lon=-90.1979&mi=10
- Aircraft: N906PG, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N906PG-2014-09-16) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Boeing 727-200 (registry code 138407E, https://openairdocs.org/model/boeing-727-200) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Amateur-built UNKNOWN ENG (registry code 99999, https://openairdocs.org/engine/amateur-built-unknown-eng) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: BOEING 7272J0
- Reported engine: PWA JT8D*
- People aboard: 149
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 12,500 total, 9,000 in this make and model, 40 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19990617022269I

## Narrative

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

(FROM -23) CREW NOTICED A HIGHER THAN NORMAL FUEL CONSUMPTION ON NO. 1 TANK.  THEY WERE MONITORING AND CONSUMPTION BEGAN TO INCREASE.  ELECTED TO DIVERT TO STL.  LOCAL MECHANICS FROM TWA EVALUATED THE NO. 1 ENGINE AND FOUND THAT WITH THE BOOST PUMPS ON, THERE WAS AN EXCESSIVE FUEL LEAK AT THE NO. 1 ENGINE FUEL CONTROL UNIT.  SOMEONE (UNABLE TO DETERMINE WHO) REPORTED SEEING A FIRE SO THE CAPTAIN ELECTED TO EVACUATE.  THE AIRPLANE WAS EVACUATED THROUGH THE R-1 AND L-1 EMERGENCY EXIT POSITIONS.  ONE PASSENGER SUSTAINED MINOR INJURIES (SCRAPED ELEBOW, TREATED AT THE SCENE).  INVESTIGATION REVEALED NO EVIDENCE OF FIRE.  INTERVIEW WITH THE FIRE CHIEF DETERMINED THAT NONE OF THE FIREMEN HAD SEEN ANY FIRE.

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.

---
OpenAirDocs.org is an independent research project of [Contrail Labs](https://contraillabs.com/). It is not affiliated with the FAA or the NTSB. Source documents are U.S. government works in the public domain.