# Incident 20090622011079I: Boeing 717200, Kansas City, MO, June 22, 2009

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: June 22, 2009, 18:53 local time
- Place: Kansas City, MO
- Airport: Kansas City International
- Damage: No damage
- Phase of flight: Taxi
- Operating rules: Air carrier (Part 121)
- Operator: MWEA
- Location: 39.2976° N, 94.7139° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at KANSAS CITY INTL (MCI), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=39.2976&lon=-94.7139&mi=10
- Aircraft: N920ME (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: BOEING 717200
- Reported engine: RROYCE BR700
- People aboard: 92
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 11,275 total, 5,114 in this make and model, 231 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20090622011079I

## Narrative

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

(-23)  DURING TAXI, THE CREW STARTED THE APU TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL COOLING TO THE CABIN. SHORTLY THEREAFTER SMOKE WAS REPORTED IN THE CABIN.  AIRPORT RESCUE AND FIRE FIGHTING (ARFF) WAS CALLED AND EMERGENCY PROCEDURES INITIATED TO CLEAR THE SMOKE.  ONCE ARFF PERSONNEL WERE ONBOARD, SMOKE HAD CLEARED BUT UNFORTUNATELY ARFF, WITHOUT COMMUNICATING WITH THE CREW, OPENED THE AFT EMERGENCY DOOR PRIOR TO IT BEING DISARMED WHICH RESULTED IN THE TAIL CONE DROPPING AND THE SLIDE DEPLOYING.  NO EMERGENCY EVACUATION OCCURRED.  PORTABLE AIR STAIRS WERE BROUGHT OUT TO THE AIRCRAFT AND THE PASSENGERS DEPLANED THROUGH THE FORWARD ENTRANCE DOOR.  INCIDENT # ICE052009017 CLOSED.

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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