# Incident 20020930025319I: Boeing 737301, Texico, TX, September 30, 2002

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: September 30, 2002, 17:20 local time
- Place: Texico, TX
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Normal Cruise
- Operating rules: Air carrier (Part 121)
- Operator: DALA
- Aircraft: N948WP, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N948WP-2005-12-16) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Boeing 737-301 (registry code 138447R, https://openairdocs.org/model/boeing-737-301) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: CFM International CFM56 series (registry code 13802, https://openairdocs.org/engine/cfm-international-cfm56-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: BOEING 737301
- People aboard: 83
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 9,000 total, 7,000 in this make and model
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20020930025319I

## Narrative

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

(-23) ON 09/30/2002, 17:25 CDT DELTA FLIGHT 1628, A BOEING B737 WAS ENROUTE FROM DFW TO ONTARIO, CA. FLIGHT WAS OVER TEXICO, NEW MEXICO AT TIME OF INCIDENT. WHITE SMOKE WAS OBSERVED COMING FROM THE FORWARD GALLEY AREA. FLAMES WERE NOT OBSERVED, BUT FRONT OF OVEN WAS HOT. AIRCRAFT DIVERTED TO LUBBOCK, TX. AND LANDED WITHOUT INCIDENT. ONSITE INVESTIGATION OF THE AIRCRAFT AT LBB FOUND NO EVIDENCE OF FIRE, BUT STRONG SMOKE SMELL IN THE FORWARD GALLEY AREA, BACK OF GALLEY SHOWED EVIDENCE OF HEAT WHEN EXAMINED BY FIRE DEPARTMENT INFRARED SENSOR. PASSENGERS AND CREWMEMBERS EXITED THE AIRCRAFT THROUGH THE MAIN ENTRANCE DOOR INTO THE TERMINAL AREA IN A ROUTINE MANNER, WITHOUT INCIDENT. FOLLOWUP: CONTACTED SHAWN ELSTON, DELTA MAINTENANCE LIASON, FORWARD GALLEY OVEN WAS FOUND TO HAVE A FAULTY CIRCUIT BOARD. THE CIRCUIT BREAKER TO THE OVEN WAS PULLED AND THE OVEN WAS REPLACED THE NEXT DAY.

## Other reports on N948WP (1)

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

- [Incident 19970322012739I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19970322012739I), Mar 22, 1997: Boeing 737300 (N948WP), Indianapolis, IN. Narrative: crew diverted into Indianapolis from planned flight neward to Colorado springs for unsafe gear indication. Contract maintenance from usair did…

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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