# Incident 20151228021259I: Boeing B-777-346ER, Chicago, IL, December 28, 2015

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: December 28, 2015, 16:19 local time
- Place: Chicago, IL
- Airport: Chicago O'Hare International
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Takeoff: Departure Roll
- Operating rules: Foreign air carrier (Part 129)
- Operator: JACF
- Location: 41.9769° N, 87.9081° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at CHICAGO O'HARE INTL (ORD), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=41.9769&lon=-87.9081&mi=10
- Aircraft: JA734J (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: BOEING B-777-346ER
- People aboard: 0
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20151228021259I

## Narrative

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

THIS OFFICE (GL31) WAS NOTIFIED 29 DEC 15, AROUND 9:15 AM (CST), BY A REPRESENTATIVE OF JAPAN AIR LINES (JAL) THAT THEY HAD BEEN NOTIFIED THE PREVIOUS DAY THAT THEIR FLIGHT, JAL 9 KORD ? RJAA, HAD POSSIBLY LOST PARTS ON KORD RWY 10L ON 28 DEC.  SUBSEQUENTLY A SWIFT AIR CHARTER B-737-400 HAD ABORTED A TAKEOFF DUE BLOWN TIRES CAUSED BY FOD ON THE RUNWAY.

KORD GROUND OPERATIONS CONDUCTED A FOD INSPECTION AFTER THE ABORTED TAKEOFF AND RETRIEVE A COLLECTION OF PARTS LATER TO BE DETERMINED WERE FROM B-777 AND B-737 AIRCRAFT.

FAA INSPECTORS PROCEEDED TO THE JAL LINE MAINTENANCE OFFICE BELOW TERMINAL 3 AND WERE MET BY THE JAPAN AIRLINES MAINTENANCE MANAGER.  HE EXPLAINED THAT JAL 9 (KORD ? RJAA, 28 DEC) HAD  LOST PARTS AND THAT SOME OF THE RETRIEVED PARTS WERE VERY POSSIBLE FROM THE JAL AIRCRAFT.

A SUMMARY OF THE PARTS FOUND INCLUDED SEVERAL PARTS DEEMED TO BE FROM A B-777 MAIN LANDING GEAR ASSEMBLY, A PART OF A B-737 NEXTGEN RETRACTABLE LANDING LIGHT ASSEMBLY, AND PART OF AN ACOUSTIC LINER FROM AN ENGINE HIGH-BYPASS FAN SHROUD.

SUMMARY:

1.	 NOTIFIED BY JAL AT APPROX. 0915 (CST) 29 DEC 2015 (VIA THE R.O.C.).

2.	 JAL 9 DEPARTED KORD  RWY 10L AT 1619 (2219Z) FOR RJAA.

3.	AFTER TAKEOFF, THE FLIGHT CREW RECEIVED EICAS MESSAGES ?AUTO SPEEDBRAKE? AND ?ANTISKID? (CONSISTENT WITH THE DAMAGE TO THE MLG JUNCTION BOX).

4.	IN CRUISE, THE FLIGHT CREW RECEIVED EICAS MESSAGES ?TIRE PRESSURE, AUTO SPEEDBRAKE, ANTISKID, GEAR INDICATION SYS, BRAKE TEMP SYS? (ALL CONSISTENT WITH THE DAMAGE TO THE MLG JUNCTION BOX).

5.	KORD HAD WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS FOR AT LEAST 10 HOURS PRIOR TO THE JAL 9 DEPARTURE WITH A MIXTURE OF RAIN, FREEZING RAIN, SNOW, ICE PELLETS, AND MIST REPORTED IN THE FIELD METAR.

6.	NO EVIDENCE OF ANY RUNWAY CLEANING (SNOW REMOVAL ATTEMPTS) PRIOR TO THE JAL 9 DEPARTURE.

7.	AFTER ARRIVAL AT RJAA (NARITA INT?L), DAMAGE TO BOTH JUNCTION BOXES ON THE LEFT MAIN LANDING GEAR.

8.	AT 1702 SWQ2536 ABORTED TAKEOFF ON KORD DUE TO BLOWN TIRE.

9.	AIRFIELD OPERATIONS CLOSED 10L FOR FOD RETRIEVAL AND SNOW REMOVAL AT 1712.  AIRCRAFT DEBRIS WAS RECOVERED FROM RWY 10L, BETWEEN TAXIWAYS ?DD? AND ?N1.?

10.	THE FSDO WAS NOTIFIED UNTIL 16 HOURS AFTER THE ABORTED TAKEOFF, LIMITING THE INSPECTOR?S ABILITY TO ASCERTAIN THE EXACT POSITION OF THE DEBRIS ON THE RUNWAY AND THE CONDITION OF THE RUNWAY.

11.	REF:  PTRS GL31201601374

NOTE:  THIS INCIDENT IS STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION AND WILL BE AMENDED.

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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