# Incident 20240726015409I: Gulfstream Aerospace G-IV, Houston, TX, July 26, 2024

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: July 26, 2024, 12:15 local time
- Place: Houston, TX
- Airport: William P Hobby
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Climb
- Operating rules: Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
- Operator: T8VA
- Location: 29.6458° N, 95.2772° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at WILLIAM P HOBBY (HOU), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=29.6458&lon=-95.2772&mi=10
- Aircraft: N400SF, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N400SF) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Gulfstream Aerospace G-IV (registry code 3980115, https://openairdocs.org/model/gulfstream-aerospace-g-iv) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Rolls-Royce TAY MK 610-8 (registry code 54556, https://openairdocs.org/engine/rolls-royce-tay-mk-610-8) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE G-IV
- Reported engine: ROLLS-ROYC TAY MK 610-8
- People aboard: 3
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Airline transport
- Pilot flight hours: 10,000 total
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20240726015409I

## Narrative

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

AIRCRAFT WITH THREE PERSONS ON BOARD, TWO PILOTS AND ONE CABIN ATTENDANT, DEPARTED WILLIAM P. HOBBY AIRPORT (KHOU), TX ENROUTE FORT LAUDERDALE EXECUTIVE AIRPORT (KFXE), FL.  IN CLIMB PHASE OF FLIGHT, BRIEFLY LEVELING OFF AT FL 350 WAITING TO CLIMB TO FINAL ALTITUDE OF FL 410, CREW HEARD A LOUD “BANG” NOISE.  PILOTS DID NOT OBSERVE ANY ABNORMAL ENGINE INDICATIONS.  THE VIBRATION SENSORS SHOWED NO EVIDENCE OF ABNORMAL INDICATIONS.  PILOT INITIALLY BELIEVED THEY MAY HAVE EXPERIENCED A COMPRESSOR STALL. BECAUSE THEY HAD JUST FLOWN THROUGH ICE, PILOT BELIEVED A COMPRESSOR STALL MAY HAVE BEEN INDUCED BY ONE OF THE ENGINES INGESTING ICE.  PILOT WALKED BACK TO CABIN TO INSPECT ENGINE NACELLES TO SEE IF THERE WAS ANY ICE BUILDUP.  AS PILOT APPROACHED THE RIGHT-SIDE WINDOWS, PILOT NOTICED THE OUTSIDE PANEL OF THE PASSENGER-SIDE WINDOW HAD BLOWN OUT.  PILOT RETURNED TO THE COCKPIT AND DISCUSSED THE PROBLEM WITH THE CREW.  ATC WAS CONTACTED AND ADVISED OF THE SITUATION AND AIRCRAFT WAS TURNED AROUND TO RETURN TO HOU.  AS AIRCRAFT HAD NO ABNORMAL INDICATIONS, ENGINES WERE OPERATING NORMALLY, PRESSURIZATION SYSTEM FUNCTIONING PROPERLY AND ALL FLIGHT CONTROLS FUNCTIONING PROPERLY, PILOT CHOSE TO NOT DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.  THE RETURN FLIGHT TO HOU WAS UNEVENTFUL AND THE AIRCRAFT LANDED SAFELY.  UPON EXITING THE AIRCRAFT, CREW OBSERVED A DENT ON THE ENGINE NACELLE AND SEVERAL FAN BLADES THAT HAD DENTS INDICATING THE WINDOW HAD ENTERED ENGINE NUMBER TWO.

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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