- Date
- June 19, 1987, 14:15 local (21:15 UTC)
- Place
- Seattle, WA
- Injuries
- 41 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N813PHde Havilland DHC-8-101
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 10, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870619041209I
- Case key
- 40545
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The crew of the scheduled airline passenger flight experienced an explosion and fire in the right engine at approx 800 ft AGL during initial climb after takeoff. The pilot shut the engine down, activated two fire bottles, which extinguished the fire and landed without further incident. A high pressure fuel control unit fuel return line, installed near the starter generator, was found to be leaking. A laboratory examination revealed previous external damage to the line.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N813PH
- Reported as
- de Havilland DHC-8-101
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 032
- Airframe hours
- 2,841
- Engine
- P&W PW-120, 2,000 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Fire
- In-Flight
- Flight
- Part 121
- Operator
- Horizon Air Industries, Inc., doing business as Horizon Airlines
- Registered owner
- Ut Financial Services Corp.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · June 12, 1987 · 60 hours before
- Departed
- SEA · Seattle, WA
- Destination
- PDX · Portland, OR
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- BFI · Boeing Field, runway 13R, 10,000 × 200 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 31
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 7,000 total · 500 in this make and model · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SEA, 5 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.