Service difficulty report · Fire · Airbus A321231

Difficulty date
August 23, 2025
Submitted
August 25, 2025
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N558UW
Make and model
Airbus A321231
Aircraft serial
5282
Aircraft time
39,646 hours, 16,491 cycles
Part
Fire
Condition
Fire
Location
Pax Battery
Stage of operation
CR
How discovered
O
Nature of condition
A, B
Precautionary procedure
A

As reported to the FAA. Reports are unverified, and codes are left as the FAA publishes them.

What was found

AIRCRAFT WAS GROUNDED: AN EMERGENCY WAS DECLARED AND THE AIRCRAFT DIVERTED TO IAD DUE TO THE FLIGHT CREW REPORTING THAT WHILE AT CRUISE A PASSENGERS PORTABLE POWER BANK WAS ON FIRE / SMOKING AND FELL OUT OFF THE BACK PACK IT WAS IN. THE FLIGHT ATTENDANTS PUT IT IN THE FIRE CONTAINMENT BACK TO EXTINGUISH THE FIRE. THE FIGHT CREW REPORTED FIRE DAMAGE IN ROW 31 DEF AND THE AIRCRAFT LANDED SAFELY AT IAD WHERE IT TAXIED TO THE GATE UNDER ITS OWN POWER, MAINTENANCE INSPECTED THE AIRCRAFT AND FOUND NO DAMAGE TO THE AIRCRAFT AND DETERMINED THAT NO AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS AT FAULT, WITH THE EVENT BEING CAUSED BY THE PASSENGER'S POWER BANK CHARGER OVER HEATING AND SMOKING. MAINTENANCE CLEANED THE AREA AND NO ODOR REMAINED.

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