# Incident 20250317009659I: Boeing 767-316F, Miami, FL, March 17, 2025

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: March 17, 2025, 01:51 local time
- Place: Miami, FL
- Airport: Miami
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Takeoff: Departure Roll
- Operating rules: Foreign air carrier (Part 129)
- Operator: 2LCF
- Location: 25.7783° N, 80.1703° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at MIAMI (X44), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=25.7783&lon=-80.1703&mi=10
- Aircraft: N418LA, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N418LA) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Boeing 767-316F (registry code 138526F, https://openairdocs.org/model/boeing-767-316f) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: GE CF6-80 series (registry code 30025, https://openairdocs.org/engine/ge-cf6-80-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: BOEING 767-316F
- Reported engine: GE CF6-80 SERIES
- People aboard: 3
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Airline transport
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20250317009659I

## Narrative

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

“ON 03/17/2025, 0551Z, ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^B763, REGISTRATION , MIA-SBKP, DEPARTED RY9.  PARTS OF AN ENGINE COWLING SEPARATED FROM THE AIRCRAFT.  ON 03/17 AND 03/18 COWLING PARTS WERE DISCOVERED IN THE GRASS, NORTH SIDE OF RY9 BY TWY'S T-4 AND T-7 BY ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ OPS VEHICLES AND RETRIEVED.  ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ OPS NOTIFIED BY ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ OPS.  ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ HAD NOT NOTIFIED MIA TOWER OR TRACON AND CONTINUED TO DESTINATION AIRPORT. “

THE MIA-IFO WAS NOTIFIED ON 03/20/2025 VIA AN EON EMAIL A LATER DURING THE DAY ESA-ROC VIA EMAIL.

POI ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ SENT AN EMAIL TO ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ (2LCF) FOR A REPORT AND RELATED DOCUMENTATION TO THIS EVENT.

03/26/2025:  A ZOOM MEETING WAS HELD WITH ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENT. IN THE MEETING WERE PRESENT FROM THE FAA:  POI K, PMI AND PMI .  FROM ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^WERE PRESENT STATION MANAGER, AND DIR OF MAINTENANCE.  MAINTENANCE CONTRACTORS FROM ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^. ALSO, PRESENT WAS THE PMI OF ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ (MAINTENANCE CONTRACTORS).

THIS MEETING REVEALED THAT CONTRACT A&P WAS PERFORMING A DAILY ON THE AIRCRAFT.  WHEN HE WAS ABOUT TO CHECK THE OIL QUANTITY/LEVEL OF ENGINE #1 (LEFT) HE FOUND THAT THE LANYARD OF THE OIL CAP WAS LOOSE. PROCEEDED TO OPEN THE ENGINE COWLING TO CONTINUE WITH THE PROCESS OF SECURING THE LANYARD AS REQUIRED. FROM THERE, WITHOUT FINISHING THIS TASK, HE PROCEEDED TO WORK ON ENGINE #2 (RIGHT) WITHOUT PROPERLY CLOSING AND SECURING THE COWLING OF ENGINE #1.  LATER HE SIGNED AND RELEASED THE MAINTENANCE LOGBOOK. ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ PMI CONDUCTED A SEPARATE INVESTIGATION ON ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ MAINTENANCE CONTRACTORS AND INVOLVED A&P.  THE A&P ACCEPTED THAT HE COMMITTED THE ERROR.  HE HAS BEEN SUSPENDED FROM WORK UNTIL INVESTIGATION IS COMPLETED.

^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ STATED THAT THEY WILL SEND A FULL SMS REPORT OF THIS EVENT.

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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