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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Jetair JETSTM4101 · Newark, NJ · August 7, 2000

Date
August 7, 2000 · 16:20 local
Place
Newark, NJ
Airport
Newark International
Phase of flight
Starting Engines
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
VTZA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N328UE
Reported as
Jetair JETSTM4101

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.

(-23)While ground power unit (gpu) was hooked up to the aircraft a fire occurred behind the gpu receptacle. Fire was extinguished using a shirt and fire extinguisher. privacy data omitted

As the FAA filed it

(-23)WHILE GROUND POWER UNIT (GPU) WAS HOOKED UP TO THE AIRCRAFT A FIRE OCCURRED BEHIND THE GPU RECEPTACLE. FIRE WAS EXTINGUISHED USING A SHIRT AND FIRE EXTINGUISHER. ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^