- Date
- July 20, 2009, 14:44 local (14:44 UTC)
- Place
- Keflavik, Iceland
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N658UABoeing 767
- Defining event
- Enroute-cruise: Fire/smoke (non-impact)
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- NTSB office
- Major Investigations Division
- Lead agency
- Other
- Case key
- 74331
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Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Factual narrative
On July 20, 2009, UAL flight 949, a B767 enroute from London Heathrow to Chicago O'Hare experienced smoke in the cockpit and the crew elected to divert to Keflavik, Iceland. The flight landed without further incident and no injuries among the 11 crew and 178 passengers. The event is being investigated by AAIB Iceland, who requested recorder readout assistance from NTSB.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N658UA
- Reported as
- Boeing 767 (300)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 6458
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Fire
- In-Flight
- Flight
- Part 121
- Operator
- United Airlines
- Registered owner
- Wells Fargo Bank Northwest Na Trustee
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Departed
- EGLL · London Lhr
- Destination
- KORD · Chicago, IL
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- BIKF · Keflavik
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day