# Incident 20020121004539I: Boeing 767222, Newark, NJ, January 21, 2002

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: January 21, 2002, 17:22 local time
- Place: Newark, NJ
- Phase of flight: Final Approach
- Operating rules: Air carrier (Part 121)
- Operator: UALA
- Location: 40.7242° N, 74.1726° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Newark, NJ, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=40.7242&lon=-74.1726&mi=10
- Aircraft: N604UA, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N604UA-2007-02-22) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Boeing 767-222 (registry code 1385122, https://openairdocs.org/model/boeing-767-222) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: BOEING 767222
- Pilot flight hours: 20,000 total, 4,000 in this make and model, 180 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20020121004539I

## Narrative

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

(-23) CAPTAIN DEPARTED FROM SFO, AND CAPTAIN REQUESTED EXTRA FUEL ABOVE DISPATCH MIN., AS HE FELT HE NEEDED EXTRA FUEL. THIS EXTRA FUEL WAS LOADED. ENROUTE TO EWR, THE FLT. WAS REROUTED TWICE, DESCENDED TO A LOWER THAN FLT. PLAN ALTITUDE , PUT INTO A HOLDING PATTERN, & THEN WAS TOLD TO SLOW DOWN WELL PRIOR TO REACHING THE TERMINAL AREA. THESE ACTIONS ALL RESULTED IN AN INCREASE IN FUEL BURN. ON THREE OCCASIONS THE CAPTAIN NOTIFIED DISPATCH HE WAS "MIN. FUEL." THEY REQUESTED THAT HE CONTINUE RATHER THAN DIVERT. HE ALSO NOTIFIED ATC THAT HE WAS MIN. FUEL FINALLY AFTER BEING GIVEN A WIDE DOWNWIND, HE WAS TURNED TO FINAL APPROACH WITH APPROXIMATELY 9000# OF FUEL. HE WAS TOLD HE WOULD HAVE TO BE VECTORED THROUGH THE FINAL APPROACH COURSE FOR SPACING, AND AT THAT TIME THE CAPTAIN DECLARED AN EMERGENCY FOR FUEL. HE WAS TURNED IN AND LANDED WITHOUT INCIDENT.

## Other reports on N604UA (1)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Incident 19920513014769I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19920513014769I), May 13, 1992: Boeing 767222 (N604UA), Los Angeles, CA. Smoke and heat in cabin on takeoff. Aborted. Evacuated. APU air supply duct had ruptured.

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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